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April 5, 1837, Hong Xiuquan "ascended to the Heaven". During his illness he ran into a spiritual experience: seeing a person in high status granted him the responsibilities to destroy evils. Later he identified what he saw were God and Jesus in Christian. Upon this he created "Association of Worshiping the God", and later developed into "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom". Other than this great scaled rebellions, spiritual experiences influenced modern China's fate in political and intellectual spheres in various aspects. For details you may refer to our research finding: Huang Ko-wu, "Research into Spiritualism in Early Republican Shanghai: A Study of the Shanghai Spiritualism Society".
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