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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:
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1
- Languages:
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Original:
English
- Number of Pages:
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448
- Publisher:
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W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:
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1996-12-17
- Release Date:
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1997-01-01
- ISBN / EAN:
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9780393315561
- Weight:
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620 g
- Dimensions:
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15/24/3 cm
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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