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Definition of: Taiping
(tī′ping′) noun
An insurgent in the Taiping Rebellion in China (1850–64) led by one Hung–siu–tsuen, who sought to replace the Manchu dynasty with a native dynasty called the T'ai–p'ing Chao (Great Peace Dynasty): suppressed with the aid of a corps of Chinese led by Charles George Gordon. [<Chinese, great peace]
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