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God's Chinese Son

By Spence, Jonathan D.

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God's Chinese Son

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Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
448
Release Date:
1997-01-01
Publication Date:
1996-12-17
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393315568
ISBN13:
9780393315561
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
620 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
237 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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