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

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

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

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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ISBN 13 9780393038446
ISBN 10 0393038440
Title God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Author Jd Spence
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 1996-01-17
Number of pages 432
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.