Can the White Lotus Rebellion succeed?

[Taunay]

The White Lotus Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion) was just one of the many rebellions that took place during the Qing dynasty.
The question is: Can it succeed and overthrow the government?

[lordroel]

Dec 30, 2022 1:42:39 GMT Taunay said:

The White Lotus Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lotus_Rebellion) was just one of the many rebellions that took place during the Qing dynasty.
The question is: Can it succeed and overthrow the government?

Welcome aboard, when posting a new thread, you need to start a discussion not just ask a question

[raharris1973]

It doesn’t seem like it ever got as big as the Taiping or Nien rebellions.

It would be interesting if this rebellion in the very early 19th century, went bigger and ‘national’ or won.

All things being equal, it would increase China’s vulnerability to have a period of inter-dynastic instability starting in the early 19th century.

It could set China up to be ‘Raj’ed’ by Britain, Russia, and possibly other European powers from the decades that immediately follow the Napoleonic wars.

Or, China could luck out, if the victorious rebels or emergent winners from the early 19th century fracas are a new, vigorous, innovative, yet stable dynasty that rules with Meiji-like competence and skill, solidifying China as a world power by 1900.

[Max Sinister]

I don't know much about Chinese rebellions, except a bit about the Taiping. So yeah, why did they not succeed, other than Sun Yatsen & co? Because the latter just had to face Pu Yi, who was a) too young and b) really not too bright even as an adult (check his autpbiography)?