This is fascinating. What do these groups think of the Tauping Rebellion? What about other conquest dynasties? Are there serious historians pushing this in academia or is it the average person wikipedia skimming and making memes? Where can we read more in English about this worldview?
The content creator in question was likely to be propped up by MCN companies to generate online traffic, for there is always a market for shock-value populism. I don’t think any serious scholar would endorse this discourse as some of its arguments border on anti-intellectualism. Taiping Rebellion, for one, was romantically and erratically framed as an emancipation movement of ethnic Han.
This is fascinating. What do these groups think of the Tauping Rebellion? What about other conquest dynasties? Are there serious historians pushing this in academia or is it the average person wikipedia skimming and making memes? Where can we read more in English about this worldview?
The content creator in question was likely to be propped up by MCN companies to generate online traffic, for there is always a market for shock-value populism. I don’t think any serious scholar would endorse this discourse as some of its arguments border on anti-intellectualism. Taiping Rebellion, for one, was romantically and erratically framed as an emancipation movement of ethnic Han.