God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

Name: God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Brand: WW Norton & Co
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By Spence, Jonathan D.

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 448
Release Date:: 1997-01-01
Publication Date:: 1997-01-01
Publisher:: WW Norton & Co
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0393315568
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 635 g
Height:: 23.6 cm
Width:: 15.7 cm
Thickness:: 3 cm

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