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taiping

taiping


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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.