Taipings

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Taipings

  1. plural of Taiping
    • 1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China[1], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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, Taiping Rebellion[2], Encyclopædia Britannica:
      Under the Taipings, the Chinese language was simplified, and equality between men and women was decreed.