![]() ![]() In the end, it was neutral in the American Civil War (as Abraham Lincoln made it clear that the war was about slavery) but helped the Qing Empire fight against the Taiping Rebels. ![]() Platt describes that the Taiping Civil War occurred at roughly the same time as the American Civil War, which caused Britain to pay close attention to world affairs, for it didn't want to lose two of its major trading partners. ![]() However, they were still exploited by foreign powers, seen excellently in the Opium War. ![]() Platt writes that the Qing Empire at the time was not backwards, for they were integrated into the world’s economy. The Taiping Civil War saw the deaths of at least twenty million people, making it claim at least thirty times the number of lives when compared to the American Civil War. That is, the Taiping Civil War saw the rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom facing off with what was left of the two-centuries-old Qing dynasty of the Manchus. Platt begins his book by stating that the Taiping Civil War, “The war that engulfed China from 1851 to 1864 was not only the most destructive war of the nineteenth century, but likely the bloodiest civil war of all time” (xxiii). ![]()
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