Lai Wenguang
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Lai Wenguang attracted many northern Chinese to unite fighting against the Qing government because people believed the Aisin Gioro had a secret agenda to stage a coup against Empress Dowager Cixi.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
His elder brother Lai Hanying was the Taiping Rebellion's king early on, and one of the few of kings still alive after the civil war ended in 1870.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". As a child, future revolutionary Sun Yat-sen often heard the story of the Taiping Rebellion.
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- 《遵王賴文光自述》 (1868)
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- 1868 deaths
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- People from Meixian District
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- Nian Rebellion