The Taiping Rebellion
In Our Time: History
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The Importance of Western Ideas
I was going to agree with julia very much that in the past, millinarianism,. which does occur whenever you've got social and economic unrest, was largely based on er bizarre ideas. And i think julio hapse right to talk about the extraordinary importance of western ideas. I mean, the west is doing good things and bad things in china at the time. It's disrupting things like traditional shipping routes and bringing in steamers, so that you've got an awful lot of unemployed boatmen who will join hongsotran. They add to the er, the growing army. So foreigness is very important. But also something we just need to add to the
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