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Had the taiping rebellion been successful in taking over China ,what would happened to China and the Far East
 
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China will become a hellhole,with the population decreasingly rapidly(since you aren't allowed to have sex even with the person you are married to).
 
Had the taiping rebellion been successful in taking over China ,what would happened to China and the Far East

Highly unlikely that the Taipings will be able to conquer all of China. Should the Qing collapse, the Mongols will go their own way, the Manchus would retreat to their base in the Northeast, and the Tibetans and Uighurs will all take the opportunity to split from China. Other potential breakaway factions include the Panthays in Yunnan, and the Hui in the northwest (not to mention the Confucian gentry across the country). Obviously those in the north will seek Russian protection, and those in the South will find British protection.
 

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If they had someone competent in administration and popular with the people, like Shi Dakai, they could probably successfully achieve regime change and form a stable state that will likely be more modern than Qing China because of reformers like Yung Wing being given prominent positions in the Taiping Kingdom.
 
If they had someone competent in administration and popular with the people, like Shi Dakai, they could probably successfully achieve regime change and form a stable state that will likely be more modern than Qing China because of reformers like Yung Wing being given prominent positions in the Taiping Kingdom.

That is a possibility, though it has to be noted that the Taipings did not particularly deviate from the Sinocentric worldview of the Qing. Yang Xiuqing, for example, wrote to a British mission to the Heavenly Kingdom in 1853 with the words, 'A decree to the distant English, who have long recognized the duty of worshipping Heaven...'
 
What would be the relationship of a Taiping China with western powers? Would these even tolerate its existance without using the general dismentlement of Qing Empire to cut out what remains in sphere of influence and more coastal holdings?
 
What would be the relationship of a Taiping China with western powers? Would these even tolerate its existance without using the general dismentlement of Qing Empire to cut out what remains in sphere of influence and more coastal holdings?

In a sense the Taipings were not particularly interested in 'relationships' with other countries, as might be expected if your leader is supposed to be God on earth (which is basically who Hong Xiuquan saw himself as).

American, French and British missions (4 in total, the British visiting twice) visited Tianjing/Nanjing after it was captured by the Taipings; all of them tried to establish diplomatic relations but were... sort of rebuffed, the Taipings were not interested in state-to-state interaction but were rather more interested in the theology and Christianity of their respective countries. The poor knowledge of the Taiping leadership regarding foreign powers was also a factor: the Taipings fired on the American mission as it sailed up the Yangtze because they did not recognize its flag.
 
On the other hand, you had Hong Rengan. Western opinion was fairly positive towards the Taiping until after 1860 and they generally attempted to avoid confrontation until they had to.
 
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