#339 - Taiping 16: At Sixes & Sevens

Podcast: The History of China Podcast · Chris Stewart

Opublikowano: 2026-07-27

The Taiping's greatest summer curdles into its bloodiest autumn. Two months after the East King demands to be crowned Hong Xiuquan's equal, three of his brother-kings converge on Nanjing with an army he never sees coming. By dawn, the man who once spoke with the voice of God is a head on a pole in the street. Yet the purge doesn't end there: it swallows thousands, devours the men who ordered it, and costs the Heavenly Kingdom its foothold on the Yangtze before the year is out – all without a single Qing soldier's help. Time Period Covered: Dec. 1853–Sep. 1856 CE Majo...