The Second Opium War and the End of the Taiping Civil War

People's History of Ideas Podcast - A podcast by Matthew Rothwell

The episode wraps up the events of the Taiping Revolution (1850-1864) and also deals with the events and outcome of the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The Qing Dynasty is weakened and the British, French, American and Russian powers extract new unequal treaties. Then the British help the Qing to put down a peasant-based revolution.Support the show