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People's History of Ideas Podcast
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The Second Opium War and the End of the Taiping Civil War

32 min•3 juli 2019

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The episode wraps up the events of the Taiping Revolution (1850-1864) and also deals with the events and outcome of the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The Qing Dynasty is weakened and the British, French, American and Russian powers extract new unequal treaties. Then the British help the Qing to put down a peasant-based revolution.

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