Millenarian Rebellion in China: Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813
Millenarian Rebellion in China: Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 by Susan Naquin
English | 1977 | ISBN: 0300018932 | 400 Pages | PDF | 49.3 MB
English | 1977 | ISBN: 0300018932 | 400 Pages | PDF | 49.3 MB
In the autumn of 1813 religious sects calling themselves the Eight Trigrams planned a rebellion that involved simultaneous uprisings in several cities of north China, including Peking. The members of these sects were converts to a three-hundred-year-old millenarian religion whose central deity was known as the Eternal and Venerable Mother. The rebellion, sect leaders promised, was destined to bring about the fall of the reigning Ch'ing dynasty and the inauguration of a new era of "endless blessings." The uprisings took place as planned but were imperfectly coordinated. An attempt to seize the Forbidden City in Peking was quickly thwarted, and government troops were immediately dispatched to restore order in the provinces. The rebels were eventually besieged in a single city in northern Honan province, and after three months of fighting, the city was taken and the rebellion of the Eight Trigrams brought to an end.