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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... China specialist, I have never read a more engaging, absorbing historical study than this one. . . . For an understanding of nineteenth century China this work is, quite simply, indispensable; and as a 'good read' on the subject, it is ...
... China specialist, I have never read a more engaging, absorbing historical study than this one. . . . For an understanding of nineteenth century China this work is, quite simply, indispensable; and as a 'good read' on the subject, it is ...
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... CHINA THE QUESTION OF Hu THE MEMORY PALACE OF MATTEO Ricci THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE: THE CHINESE AND THEIR REVOLUTION, 1895-1980 THE DEATH OF WOMAN WANG EMPEROR OF CHINA: SELF-PORTRAIT OF K'ANG-HSI To CHANGE CHINA: WESTERN ADVISERS IN ...
... CHINA THE QUESTION OF Hu THE MEMORY PALACE OF MATTEO Ricci THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE: THE CHINESE AND THEIR REVOLUTION, 1895-1980 THE DEATH OF WOMAN WANG EMPEROR OF CHINA: SELF-PORTRAIT OF K'ANG-HSI To CHANGE CHINA: WESTERN ADVISERS IN ...
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... China, and received his chance to teach the Bible to the future Taiping Heavenly King. My special thanks also to Judy Chiu-ti Liu, whose combination of knowledge in Chinese Christian sources and classical Chinese made her an invaluable ...
... China, and received his chance to teach the Bible to the future Taiping Heavenly King. My special thanks also to Judy Chiu-ti Liu, whose combination of knowledge in Chinese Christian sources and classical Chinese made her an invaluable ...
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... China farming family of modest means, and for a time employed as a village schoolteacher, Hong soon found himself caught up in the turbulent crosscurrents of Western ideas that were being introduced to China during his youth. Of these ...
... China farming family of modest means, and for a time employed as a village schoolteacher, Hong soon found himself caught up in the turbulent crosscurrents of Western ideas that were being introduced to China during his youth. Of these ...
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... China. The elements of both balance and closure had been long accepted by the Chinese, finding their most famous expression in the Book, of Changes during the first millennium B.C. According to this text, the creative forces are at best ...
... China. The elements of both balance and closure had been long accepted by the Chinese, finding their most famous expression in the Book, of Changes during the first millennium B.C. According to this text, the creative forces are at best ...
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Gods Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan D Spence Ograniczony podgląd - 1996 |
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