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God's Chinese Son - The Paiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Spence, Jonathan D is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. Publishers Weekly: In what PW called a "masterful history," Spence recounts the mid-19th century Taiping Rebellion, in which a Chinese Christian fanatic seized Nanking and ruled his "New Jerusalem" for a decade. (Jan.) Biography: Jonathan D. Spence
Who reads God's Chinese Son - The Paiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Spence, Jonathan D
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company, Inc.
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780002555845
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, World History, Humanities