i just wanna clarify that you're referring to the Taiping Rebellion specifically, since that usually doesn't get called the Chinese Civil War, even though it was indeed a Chinese Civil War.
that's the one I meant, it left the country decimated and ripe for outside imperial conquest, which is what happened since the second opium war started half-way through the Taiping Rebellion. It was why the Shanghai ports were owned by the UK for so long too.
i just wanna clarify that you're referring to the Taiping Rebellion specifically, since that usually doesn't get called the Chinese Civil War, even though it was indeed a Chinese Civil War.
that's the one I meant, it left the country decimated and ripe for outside imperial conquest, which is what happened since the second opium war started half-way through the Taiping Rebellion. It was why the Shanghai ports were owned by the UK for so long too.