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Hallowed Ground | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum, Nanjing, China

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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum owes its 1958 establishment to Chinese Communist Chairman Mao Zedong, who claimed the 1850–64 Taiping Rebellion as an early communist revolution. Mao further underscored the museum’s political and cultural significance by ordering it sited in Nanjing, a city besieged both during the rebellion and in December 1937 by invading …

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