A Twice Burning Candle at Full Pelt

Hst Fiction. Frederick Townsend Ward and the Taiping Rebellion. The story primarily covers the years 1860-1862 in Shanghai, Imperial China. The Taiping Rebellion began circa 1850 and lasted until 1864 and could well be the bloodiest conflict in world history. Frederick Townsend Ward was an American adventurer when he came on the scene in 1860, Shanghai, China. Single handed he helped save and transform China.