TAIPING ("great peace" or "great equity") denotes a pan-Chinese social ideal and utopian slogan of rebels and dynasty founders. Ping ("level, balanced, just, harmonious"), daping ("great peace"),...

Taiping (Traditional/Simplified Chinese: 太平; Pinyin: Tàipíng) meaning "peace", may refer...

Writing in the New York Daily Tribune in June 1853, Karl Marx argued that it was quite probable that "the next uprising of the people of Europe" would depend "on what is now passing in the Celestial Empire," on "the Chinese revolution." He...

By Thomas H. Reilly. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 235. $45. Thomas Reilly's book provides a fresh look at the Taiping Rebellion, the massive uprising that nearly brought down the Qing Dynasty and left millions dead in China in...

Taiwan's president inaugurated a runway on a disputed island in the South China Sea, sparking a protest from the Philippines which also claims sovereignty over the isle, officials said.Chen Shui-bian, the first Taiwanese president to ever visit Taiping island in the Spratlys chain, also met...

Four gorillas at the center of a five-year international tussle will finally return to Cameroon at the end of November, the South African government said Friday.The Western Lowland Gorillas, known as the Taiping Four, were illegally smuggled as young animals to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia,...