After the Opium Wars, a new world order arose between Qing China and the Western states. As Codified in the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing, the American treaty and the French treaty signed in 1844, and the 1858 Treaty of Tianjin, Christianity was distinguished from the local religions and protected. Subsequently, the Chinese popular cults, such as the White Lotus and the Eight Trigram, attached themselves to Christianity to share this protection. Meanwhile, the lifting of the proscription made room for the emergence of the Christian-inspired Taiping Movement in the Yangtze River Delta. According to Reilly, the Chinese Bible translated by Morrison, as well as Liang Afa's evangelistic pamphlet, significantly impacted the formation of the Taiping movement and its religious thoughts.