Author(s)

Han Congcong ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Hubei Normal University, Huangshi, Hubei, 435002, China

Corresponding Author

Han Congcong

ABSTRACT

From beginning to end, the Qing government adopted a comprehensive blockade policy towards the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with the aim of suppressing it quickly. At the same time, the Qing government attempted to rely on a policy of trade mutual benefit to persuade Western countries to cooperate in jointly blocking and suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At the same time, it relied on diplomatic pressure, military inspections, and other means to strictly prevent foreign merchants from engaging in trade with the Taiping Army, in order to block the external trade supply channels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But in the early stages, Western countries sympathized with the Chinese Civil War due to religious beliefs and trade issues, and then "strictly adhered to neutrality". With the prolonged civil war, the interests of Western powers in China were greatly affected. In order to maintain their own rights and interests, they gradually changed their positions, and the reactionary forces at home and abroad joined forces. Western countries took the opportunity to cut off trade channels with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As a result, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime, under the joint blockade and crackdown of the reactionary forces at home and abroad, went to the brink of collapse.

KEYWORDS

Blockade policy; Suppression; Mutual benefit and mutual market; Trade Equity

CITE THIS PAPER

Han Congcong, The External Factors of the Failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Lecture Notes on History (2023) Vol. 5: 131-136. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/history.2023.050118.

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