#315 - Qing 46: Tripping Toward Taiping - Tribes, Triads, & Theology

Great Qing begins to buckle under early 19th c. internal pressures. Unrest first erupts not at the imperial core but along its social and geographic margins. This time, we look at three of the early warning shocks: the Miao frontier rebellions, the rise of Triad networks across the southern coastal cities, & the formation of the apocalyptic White Lotus uprising. Time Period Covered: ~1790s-1840s CE Major Historical Figures: Qing Empire: Fu Nai, Qing magistrate Heshen, grand councilor under the Qianlong Emperor, (1750-1799) Miao People: Shi Sanbao, Miao rebel leader, (d. ~1796)<...