The Fall of the Taiping Rebellion
Channel: The Chinese Revolution
Date: 18/12/2023

The Taiping took some steps towards modernizing China. 

More provincial armies were formed and a Taiping warlord faced off against Qing allied warlords like Zeng Guofan and the Ever Victorious Army under Charles George Gordon. Nanjing fell and the Heavenly Kingdom with it. 

The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan dies and then the Young Monarch is hunted and killed.  The remaining Taiping ally with the Nian rebels, but are also exterminated.  

This is the final episode as we learn how the Taiping Rebellion ultimately failed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. Some lessons for the future can be learned from this unsuccessful rebellion.

Seeds were planted in the Taiping Rebellion that would ripen during China's Warlord Period and its Civil War.

The rebellion is notable for its wide-scale devastation, with an estimated 20 million people killed, making it one of the deadliest in human history.

This is Episode 14 of the Chinese Revolution series and the final Taiping podcast episode.