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GOD'S CHINESE SON
THE TAIPING HEAVENLY KINGDOM OF HONG XIUQUAN |
| By: |
Jonathan D. Spence |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393315568 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393315561 |
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| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
17 December, 1996 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
"A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World |
| Synopsis: |
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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US |
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WW Norton & Co |
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