1796 AD–1804 AD
White Lotus crisis
Religion · Chinese traditions · Popular religion · Religion and conflict
The White Lotus War in central China set local rebellions against the Qing state. Yingcong Dai’s research emphasizes how government military and financial management prolonged the crisis.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
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- Dating in the source document
- 1796–1804
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
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Sources
- Yingcong Dai — The White Lotus War, University of Washington Press (2019) (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2019-06
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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