The Taiping Uprising has inspired an enormous literature in Chinese and a much smaller but still significant amount of writing in English.

WSJ: Book Review: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Others have concentrated on the movement's beliefs and goals, as Vincent Shih did in "The Taiping Ideology" (1973) and Rudolf Wagner did in "Reenacting the Heavenly Vision: The Role of Religion in the Taiping Rebellion" (1982).

WSJ: Book Review: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Not far from Zhencheng Lou, the Huanxing Building (Huanxing Lou) was torched by Taiping troops (the prevalence of wood made them particularly combustible) and was later badly damaged during fighting in the 1920s, leaving part of one wall missing.

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