🎧 Lecture 4: Rural Misery and Rebellion, 1842–1860 | The Fall and Rise of China by Richard Baum

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Nineteenth-century China also saw a prolonged agrarian crisis that spurred major peasant revolts, weakening the empire from within. Examine the explosive Taiping Rebellion, a decade-long, religiously themed struggle that threatened to unseat the empire.