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Historians frequently repeat casualty figures in the millions for the rebellion, but these numbers, where they can be traced at all, describe the population loss of the following decades of civil war, famine and displacement across northern China rather than deaths in the rebellion itself, and no modern historian has isolated a defensible toll for the rising and its suppression alone.
What would resolve this A modern historian's attempt to separate combat and reprisal deaths during the 184 CE rising itself from the much larger population loss of the decades of civil war, famine and displacement that followed it and that the rebellion helped set in motion.
OpenHan dynasty history; historical demography of early imperial ChinaFabrizio Pregadio (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Taoism
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Standard references narrate the rebellion's scale and outcome without giving a casualty total for the rising itself, distinct from the much larger population loss of the Han collapse that followed it.
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