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A 4 page paper which examines the Taiping Revolution as presented through “God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan” by Jonathan Spence. No additional sources cited.
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adjusting to great changes which were likely a result of the Industrial Revolution. All civilized and even uncivilized nations were feeling the effects and this, coupled with great internal conflict,
led many nations to experience great chaotic upheaval. In the United States there was the Civil War and in China there was the oft ignored Taiping Revolution. The following paper
examines how and why this happened as is presented through Jonathan Spences work "God.s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan." The Taiping Revolution As with
any given war or rebellion there are often many different causes for the outbreak of violence and ultimate change. In the United States, for example, the Civil War is often
cited as having been caused by the need to have the black people freed from slavery. However, the underlying realities are far more complex and surely involved a great deal
of political and economic conflict between the North and the South, conflict that involved slavery but was not focused on slavery as much as it was on essential power. In
the case of China and the Taiping Revolution one can first perhaps note that Spence states that it was an event of "context combined with vision" (Spence, 1997; Foreward).
We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real events and conditions. They were experiencing
serious problems with drought and hunger and much internal conflict. Because the nation was weak in many ways, the need for some vision arose, and found form in one person:
Hong Xiuquan. There were some who called him mad, and others who clearly saw him as a powerful visionary, giving the people a spiritual focus towards hope of some kind.
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