Its leaders included Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai, who later lost faith in the movement; it was led by a Society of God Worshippers whose leader, Hong Xiuquan, claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus.
Its original base was the Thistle Mountain region, and its strongest supporters were members of the Hakka ethnic minority. Its leaders included Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai, who later lost faith in the movement; it was led by a Society of God Worshippers whose leader, Hong Xiuquan, claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus. FTP, name this 1850-1864 uprising which threatened China's Qing dynasty.
Its original base was the Thistle Mountain region, and its strongest supporters were members of the Hakka ethnic minority.
The Taiping rebellion