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Tonghak, Buddhism, and Taoism |
The Fall and the Nature of Sin |
Conclusion |
Chapter Six: The Taiping and the Tonghak as Dynamic National Forces |
The Taiping—Hong Xiuquan's First Step Toward Revolt |
God-Worship Religion and God-Worship Society |
The Hakkas Join Feng Yunshan's God-Worship Society |
The Attack on the Local Shrine and the Arrest of Feng Yunshan |
The Holy Ghost and the New Leaders—Yang and Xiao |
Chinese Local Militias Attack the God-Worshipers |
Preparation of the Jintian Uprising (Taiping Rebellion) |
The Jintian Uprising and Secular Desires |
The Heaven-and-Earth Society Joins the Taiping |
Other Agencies Join the Taiping |
Taiping's Edict for Secular Desires |
The Taiping and Popular Participation |
Hong Xiuquan's Stance Against Heavenly Paradise and the Bible |
Hong Xiuquan's Heavenly Kingdom on Earth |
The Occupations of Wuhan and Nanjing and the Taiping's Slide Toward Corruption |
Yang Xiuqing's Ambition and Hong Xiuquan's Conspiracy to Kill Yang Xiuqing |
Hong Xiuquan Calls Wei Changhui and Wei Changhui Kills Yang Xiuqing |
Wei Changhui's Conflict With Hong Xiuquan |
The Death of the Taiping Kings and the Collapse of the Taiping |