Asian Millenarianism: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Taiping and Tonghak Rebellions in a Global Context
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Tonghak, Buddhism, and Taoism

229

The Fall and the Nature of Sin

229

Conclusion

231

Chapter Six: The Taiping and the Tonghak as Dynamic National Forces

245

The Taiping—Hong Xiuquan's First Step Toward Revolt

246

God-Worship Religion and God-Worship Society

247

The Hakkas Join Feng Yunshan's God-Worship Society

250

The Attack on the Local Shrine and the Arrest of Feng Yunshan

251

The Holy Ghost and the New Leaders—Yang and Xiao

253

Chinese Local Militias Attack the God-Worshipers

261

Preparation of the Jintian Uprising (Taiping Rebellion)

262

The Jintian Uprising and Secular Desires

266

The Heaven-and-Earth Society Joins the Taiping

267

Other Agencies Join the Taiping

269

Taiping's Edict for Secular Desires

272

The Taiping and Popular Participation

276

Hong Xiuquan's Stance Against Heavenly Paradise and the Bible

277

Hong Xiuquan's Heavenly Kingdom on Earth

278

The Occupations of Wuhan and Nanjing and the Taiping's Slide Toward Corruption

279

Yang Xiuqing's Ambition and Hong Xiuquan's Conspiracy to Kill Yang Xiuqing

280

Hong Xiuquan Calls Wei Changhui and Wei Changhui Kills Yang Xiuqing

285

Wei Changhui's Conflict With Hong Xiuquan

289

The Death of the Taiping Kings and the Collapse of the Taiping

291