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Nien Rebellion

Years: 1853 - 1868

The Nien Rebellion, an epic armed uprising that takes place in northern China from 1851 to 1868, contemporaneously with the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in South China, fails to topple the Qing dynasty, but causes immense economic devastation and loss of life that becomes one of the major long-term factors in the collapse of the Qing regime in the early 20th century.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)