Lee Nathan Feigon
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LOCATION: Waterville, ME, United States
Associate Professor of History; Director, East Asian Studies, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. Staff Writer, East Asian Affairs, Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago, 1970–73.
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Hong Xiuquan was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64), during which he declared his own new dynasty, which centred on the captured (1853) city of Nanjing. This great upheaval, in which more than 20,000,000 people are said to have been killed, drastically altered…
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