Read the previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium War Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism From the ashes of the... Continue Reading →
The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism
Read our previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium WarPrimitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market From opium-for-silver gunboat “trade” to a peasant commune that abolished rent and defied empire, the Taiping Rebellion... Continue Reading →