INSURGENCY AND SOCIAL DISORDER IN GUIZHOU : The "Miao" Rebellion 1854-1873 by Jenks, Robert D - 1994

University of Hawaii Press, 1994. 227pp. Tan cloth hardback with DJ, c.10 pages with ink underlining and marks, index, bibliography, glossary, chapter notes, figures, "the so-called Miao rebellion constituted one of the major rebellions of the nineteenth century. It lasted for twenty years, caused devastation of such severity that its effects were still obvious to travelers in Guizhou province decades later, and, by one account, resulted in the deaths of more than four million people.enhances our understanding of the causes of the rebellion and its place in the crises that beset mid-nineteenth-century China", . Hard Cover. Good+/Very Good.