The '''Taiping Revolution '''(also called the **Taiping Rebellion** or
**Taiping Civil War**) was an effort by radical christians to establish
a theocratic, totatlirain, proto-socialist society in
[China](China "wikilink") from [1851 to
1864](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Eastern_Asia "wikilink").

## Positives

  - The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made significant strides towards gender
    equality by banning foot binding and mandatory hairstyles, letting
    women into civil service exams, and declaring men and women equal.
  - The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to initiate the use of railroads
    and steamboats to help modernise China on par with the west.

## Negatives

  - The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established a totalitarian regime with
    no degree of democracy or self-management.
  - The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mandated Christianity as a state
    religion.
  - The Rebellion killed between 20 and 30 million by ''conservative
    ''estimates, others put the death toll at 120,000,000.