'Taiping rebellion' definitions:
Definition of 'Taiping rebellion'
From: GCIDE
- Taiping \Tai"ping"\, or Taeping \Tae"ping"\, a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the
- Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]