Talk:Taiping China

It is actually not very realistic that the Taiping would have modernised and democratised China- they were de facto Christian Talebans (more or less)! THe values proposed by Hong Xiuquan are egalitarian, but not that democratic. A Taiping China would have become a primitive, dictatorial theocracy and its impact on Chinese culture would have been akin to Mao's Cultural Revolution 110 years later... and an emperor Hong of Taiping Tianguo certainly deposed by the Western powers and Japan; perhaps the Qing would have been re-installed, but not before making crippling concessions towards the foreign imperialists.