Crossword clues for taiping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wikipedia
Taiping, Tai-p’ing, or Tai Ping usually refers to:
- Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), civil war in southern China
- Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851–1864), the rebels' government during that time
Taiping was a Chinese steamer that sank after a collision with another vessel while en route from mainland China to Taiwan on 27 January 1949, killing over 1,500 people.
Taiping is a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1974.
The federal constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Usage examples of "taiping".
In 1850 all these decays and discontents coalesced in a great popular uprising known as the Taiping Rebellion which was to last 15 years and cost 20 million lives before it was over.
Japanese dethrone last Taiping emperor and annex all of China not overrun by Draka.
The Senderos had been bloodily uprooted when Protocol Enforcement figured out that they were working in concert with the New Taiping Rebels, a fanatical cult opposed to both the Fists and the Coastal Republic.
In the neighbourhood of King-teh-chin, in Kiangsi, at the outbreak of the Taiping rebellion, more than one million workmen were employed in the porcelain manufactories.
Every Chinaman knows, that if it had not been for the personal aid of this god, General Gordon could never have succeeded in suppressing the Taiping rebellion.
River Taiping, coasting along the edge of the high land on the left bank of the river.
Through the plain the broad river Taiping flows on its muddy way to the Irrawaddy.
We crossed the Taiping at Myothit by a bridge, a temporary and very shaky structure, which is every year carried away when the river rises, and every year renewed when the caravans take the road after the rains.
Drawing strength from the oppressed, the Taipings succeeded in establishing a rival capital at Nanking.
I chewed the fat with Ward, boned up on my Taiping notebook, wondered when the devil Bruce's agent would turn up, and was first in quest of news at every village landing-place.
I saw that, but wondered if, in view of the possible Taiping threat to Shanghai, it mightn't be politic to jolly along this General Lee with fair words - lie to him, like.
I recall one splendid figure in crimson coat and hood, marking a subordinate Wang, mounted on a mule and attended by three skinny urchins carrying his sword, his flag (each Taiping officer has a personal flag), and his umbrella.
Now it seemed that she had gone to work for the Taiping Rebellion, so had become immensely more dangerous.
He has joined the Taiping Rebellion, and if he dares to come back to the village, you must kill him.
It is clear from his manuscript that a chance paragraph in the sporting columns of a newspaper caused him to interrupt his normal chronological habit, to fill in this hiatus in his earlier years, and from the bulk of unopened manuscript remaining it appears that his memoirs of the Taiping Rebellion, the US Civil War, and the Sioux and Zulu uprisings are still to come.