Re: Hakka Involvement in the Taiping Rebellion

["Dixie" <Dixie@singnet.com.sg>]

>> From PITTOLIM@aol.com Sat Dec 14 08:17:04 1996
> 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.

The whole story will be different if the Taipings have succeeded. And they
nearly did.
The national religion will be Christianity and the national tongue Hakka.

- Dixie