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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Jonathan D. Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-12-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"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
Gods Chinese Son
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Jonathan D Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A powerful account of the largest uprising in human history--the Taiping rebellion (1845-64)--in which 20 million Chinese were left dead, God's Chinese Son tell
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Language: en
Pages: 514
Authors: Stephen R. Platt
Categories: Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Knopf

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A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforget
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Thomas H. Reilly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant
The Search for Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 1054
Authors: Jonathan D. Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers