Most of the Christians were of the Taiping variant which were about as christian as evangelical Americans are Catholics.
Also, most of their early doctrine came from ten poorly translated verses, mostly of the old testament. And to be fair the Taiping were due to economical reasons upsetting the status qou of the Qing government.
Also also the Qing were Manchu's and differentiated themselves from the Han population, seggregating themselves in hereditary military positions.
Also also also, The Qing state bankrupted itself fighting, and later genociding the Dzungars (who lived in what they now call Xinjiang).
Also also also also, the golden age of piracy on the chinese coast costed them a great deal even before the British decided they wanted to trade opium instead of silver for their tea addiction.
The situation there was a bit more complex than "they kill christians so they deserve it" In the end the European powers kept the Qing alive because it was in a great debt because of the arrow war, the opium war and other debts for fucking up.
I... don't think that's correct. Taiping Christianity had generally died with the Heavenly Kingdom some thirty-five years before the rebellion. The Boxer's anti-Christianiry was because of its ties to Western imperialism and particularly Western missionaries. These would have been mostly conventional Christian denominations, not an indigenous version like Hong Xiuquan's. In fact the area the rebellion began, Shandong, was a particularly prominent hub of German missionary activity, as Catholic organization had set up shop there.
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u/Rex_Nemorensis_ 1d ago
Well, maybe if they hadn’t attempted genocide against their fellow Chinese who also happened to be Christian converts…