Crossword-Solution: TAIPING
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| China's __ Rebellion, 1850-64 | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAIPING (5)
Leaving minor disturbances out of account, there were during this period two huge Mahommedan rebellions, besides the cataclysmic Taiping rising which lasted ten years and is supposed to have destroyed the unbelievable total of one hundred million persons.
The Government of the post- Taiping period still imagined that by making their hands lie more heavily than ever on the people and by tightening the taxation control--not by true creative work--they could rehabilitate themselves.
These Kiangu men, mixed with Shantung recruits, had earned a historic place in the favour of the Manchus owing to the part they had played in the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion, in which great event General Gordon and Li Hung Chang had been so closely associated.
During the palmy days after the opening of the River Yangtse--when freights were taels 22 per ton from Hankow to Shanghai, a distance of six hundred miles--I was in command of the "Neimen," an auxiliary ship-rigged vessel, engaged in this trade until near the end of 1863, and saw some of the exciting times of the Taiping Rebellion in that part of China.
The Taiping rebellion and the opening of Chinese ports to foreign trade and settlement disturbed alike the homogeneity and the seclusion of China.
Quotes with TAIPING (1)
For Cixi, the whole episode taught her that to survive at court she must hold her tongue about state affairs. This was difficult, as she could see that the dynasty was in trouble. The victorious Taiping rebels not only consolidated their bases in southern China, but were sending military expeditions with a view to attacking Beijing. Cixi felt that she had practicable ideas — in fact it was under her rule that the Taiping rebels were later defeated. But she could not say a wor…
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).