But shift your gaze east, and you’ll discover that China was in the throes of its own civil war, the Taiping Rebellion, which lasted from 1850 to 1864. This interactive history map connects ...
PRESENTER:'The greatest of them, the Taiping. PRESENTER:'In the 1840s, China was still the greatest state on Earth, 'but the first opium war had left the government weakened. PRESENTER:'They'd ...