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God's Chinese son : the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan / Jonathan D. Spence. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [(c)1996.Description: xxvii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393038446
  • 0393038440
  • 0393315568
  • 9780393315561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS758.23.G637 1996
  • DS758.23.H85.S744.G637 1996
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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. https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chinese-Son-Taiping-Heavenly/dp/0393315568/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MDJ0T0TYGUXY&keywords=god%27s+chinese+son+the+taiping+heavenly+kingdom+of+hong+xiuquan&qid=1574394002&sprefix=God%27s+Chinese%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1
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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.

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chinese-Son-Taiping-Heavenly/dp/0393315568/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MDJ0T0TYGUXY&keywords=god%27s+chinese+son+the+taiping+heavenly+kingdom+of+hong+xiuquan&qid=1574394002&sprefix=God%27s+Chinese%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1

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