The Panthay Rebellion - Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873

David Atwill

A history of the Panthay Rebellion against the Chinese imperial court The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society from which the rebellion sprang. Th...