Ethnicity, Local Conflicts and the Qing State - Paperbackby Jaeyoon Kim (Author) The major focus of this book is on the Red Turban Rebellions (1854 1856), a series of rebellions by the Secret Society in South China. The Red Turban Rebellions did not have nation wide repercussions, and may appear to be dwarfed in significance by the cataclysmic upheavals that China was undergoing in the mid nineteenth century. Nevertheless, this is of considerable interest and importance since it provides case studies for