There isn't one, because the Taipings were sinified Puritan revolutionaries.
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Recommended Qing Dynasty reading to really understand this model?
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Should be able to help there, but frankly so diffusely steeped, it's hard. Ask
@thespandrell who's more of a disciplined historian.
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Failing Boxer revolt incoming so
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That's so totally happening right now.
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I do not understand the Qing Dynasty well enough to know if it fits. But what seems most pertinent about the West is high speed technological advance combined with widening tribal and class splits and declining trust. Tech advances hide some of the costs of what is going wrong.
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Broke: the West today is akin to the the late Roman Republic Woke: The West today is akin to the late 19th century Qing Dynasty Bespoke: the West today is akin to the transition period between the Polarean and Hyperborean Epoch
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Seems unfair. The Qing Dynasty was assailed from without. The West is doing it all to itself.
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