TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spence,Jonathan D.
TI  - God's Chinese son: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan 
SN  - 9780393038446
AV  - DS758.S744.G637 1996 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - W.W. Norton and Company
KW  - Asian History
KW  - Nonfiction
N1  - 1 (pages 373-388) and index; Walls  --; The word  --; Home ground  --; Sky war  --; The key  --; Wandering  --; The base  --; Judgments  --; Assembling  --; Earth war  --; The first city  --; The hunt  --; The earthly paradise  --; Three ships  --; The split  --; The killing  --; Family circles  --; The wrong man  --; New worlds  --; Priest-king  --; Snowfall  --; Partings; 2; CIU has obtained rights for you to copy and share this title in electronic or print format with students, faculty, and staff
N2  - 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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