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If the Taiping Rebellion had been successful, China might have become a (very unorthodox, not accepted by any Western church) Christian theocracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

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The short description of Taiping's policies [1] makes them sound like a Christian Taliban, or the society of Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's Tale".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion#Taiping_Heav...

One quarter as many deaths as World War 2, all of it in southern China.

When I first learned of it, years ago, I was stunned at two things - the scale of loss of life, and how little known it was ...

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