Chinese History - Opium wars, Taiping rebellion, boxer rebellion and the long march.

Assignment - China a. Discuss the Chinese ideas of the dynastic cycle and the mandate of heaven. The Mandate of Heaven was a Chinese concept used to support the rule of the kings of the Zhou Dynasty and later the Emperors of China. The concept of the Mandate of Heaven was based on the blessing of Heaven and that if a king ruled unwisely; Heaven would be displeased and would give the Mandate to someone …

…formidable fighting force against the Guomindang. The route of the long march. Bibliography: 1.<Tab/>Tseng Kuo-fan and the Taiping Rebellion (1964)E. P. Boardman 2.<Tab/>Christian Influence upon the Ideology of the Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864 (1952). 3.<Tab/>Polachek M. James. The Inner Opium War. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1992, 4.<Tab/>Woodcock George. The British in the Far East. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969.