God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong XiuquanW. W. Norton & Company, 17 gru 1996 - 432 "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 Post Book World 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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... Capital, 1853-1 864, page 187 Greatest Extent of Taiping Contro\, page 217 Shanghai in the 1860s, page 301 The Flight and Capture of the Loyal King, the Shield King, and the Young Monarch, 1864, page 327 Acknowledgments In my struggle ...
... Capital, 1853-1 864, page 187 Greatest Extent of Taiping Contro\, page 217 Shanghai in the 1860s, page 301 The Flight and Capture of the Loyal King, the Shield King, and the Young Monarch, 1864, page 327 Acknowledgments In my struggle ...
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... Capital. Though to me the main interest of the new texts lies in the light they shed on Hong Xiuquan himself, they also help us understand the audience he attracted, and the way he and his followers responded to that audience. Such ...
... Capital. Though to me the main interest of the new texts lies in the light they shed on Hong Xiuquan himself, they also help us understand the audience he attracted, and the way he and his followers responded to that audience. Such ...
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... capital of Kaifeng, and through their oral histories and their written genealogies trace their successive movements south across the centuries, in response to outside invasions, civil wars, and economic deprivation. The language they ...
... capital of Kaifeng, and through their oral histories and their written genealogies trace their successive movements south across the centuries, in response to outside invasions, civil wars, and economic deprivation. The language they ...
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... capital is a big peach tree with a foliage extending over three thousand miles. A gold cock is perched upon it, and crows at dawn." Even though the blood of freshly killed cocks can help exorcise demons, they must not be slain on the ...
... capital is a big peach tree with a foliage extending over three thousand miles. A gold cock is perched upon it, and crows at dawn." Even though the blood of freshly killed cocks can help exorcise demons, they must not be slain on the ...
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Gods Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan D Spence Ograniczony podgląd - 1996 |
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