Re: Hakka Involvement in the Taiping Rebellion

[teoh@cs.utk.edu]

>From PITTOLIM@aol.com Sat Dec 14 08:17:04 1996
Subject: Re: Hakka Involvement in the Taiping Rebellion 
Status: RO
[moderator: Chhiang ki yit fun to fhakka@asiawind.com  Tou chhia!]

Hi,

The whole Taiping Rebellion Saga was basically due to a doomsday cult led by
a deluded failed Hakka scholar who thought he was the brother of Jesus. The
disaster was of a grand scale but there are many modern parallels such as
Shoko Ashara in Japan and David Koreshi in US. It just reflected how
guillible and naive Hakka peasants were in those days.

Pitt.