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Infinitely more costly in human terms was the Taiping Rebellion, which began in 1850 as a peasant revolt.
Incredible profligacy--a few lines on otherwise pristine sheets--and thousands of ancient tax receipts prove that even the poorest peasant could pay for the papyrus on which his payments were recorded.
A former Confucian temple is presently the home of the historic National Peasant Movement Institute, where the Chinese Communist Party trained its leaders in the 1920s.
Indian education was greatly expanded, though less successfully in rural areas where people thought it better to be a good peasant than a bad clerk.
As the faced each new day, the peasant's first thought was survival for himself and his family for another twenty-four hours.