Taipings
English
Noun
Taipings
- plural of Taiping
- 1970, Kuhn, Philip A., Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 75-115476, OCLC 185872573, page 196:
- In the major sub-district administrative centers (chen) such as T'uan-feng, Yang-lo and Ts'ang-fu (which were also key economic centers) the Taipings stationed local officials and ordered that tax registers be compiled.
- 2014, Encyclopædia Britannica, "Taiping Rebellion":
- Under the Taipings, the Chinese language was simplified, and equality between men and women was decreed.
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