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1014 B
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The '''Taiping Revolution '''(also called the **Taiping Rebellion** or
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**Taiping Civil War**) was an effort by radical christians to establish
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a theocratic, totatlirain, proto-socialist society in
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[China](China "wikilink") from [1851 to
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1864](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Eastern_Asia "wikilink").
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## Positives
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- The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made significant strides towards gender
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equality by banning foot binding and mandatory hairstyles, letting
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women into civil service exams, and declaring men and women equal.
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- The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to initiate the use of railroads
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and steamboats to help modernise China on par with the west.
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## Negatives
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- The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established a totalitarian regime with
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no degree of democracy or self-management.
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- The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom mandated Christianity as a state
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religion.
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- The Rebellion killed between 20 and 30 million by ''conservative
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''estimates, others put the death toll at 120,000,000. |