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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... east to west, and fewer still from north to south. Along the southern edge of their domain, where the Pearl River flows, there is a patch of open ground, and this the Westerners call their "square" or "esplanade." But 50 paces from the ...
... east to west, and fewer still from north to south. Along the southern edge of their domain, where the Pearl River flows, there is a patch of open ground, and this the Westerners call their "square" or "esplanade." But 50 paces from the ...
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... East India Company was at its peak of power, there were a dozen or more young men from England studying Chinese in the Canton factories. They translated Chinese novels and plays, and even the Chinese legal code, so they could assess the ...
... East India Company was at its peak of power, there were a dozen or more young men from England studying Chinese in the Canton factories. They translated Chinese novels and plays, and even the Chinese legal code, so they could assess the ...
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... east along the Pearl River: Howqua, Kingqua, Pwankhequa, and the rest. The official "linguists," five in 1836, who travel door to door with crucial messages, which they deliver in their hybrid Pidgin English — Atom, Atung, "Young Tom ...
... east along the Pearl River: Howqua, Kingqua, Pwankhequa, and the rest. The official "linguists," five in 1836, who travel door to door with crucial messages, which they deliver in their hybrid Pidgin English — Atom, Atung, "Young Tom ...
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... east, the strength of sun and light.9 The tiger and the cock each features prominently in many ways and guises, also ... eastern corner of the world waiting to eat the spectral victims bound and passed on to him by two divine protectors ...
... east, the strength of sun and light.9 The tiger and the cock each features prominently in many ways and guises, also ... eastern corner of the world waiting to eat the spectral victims bound and passed on to him by two divine protectors ...
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... bow, eighty-one units of distance around, the back like a taut string facing toward the north, the curved front spanning east and south and west. Sixty-three steps lead The sixth court of hell, as portrayed in a nineteenth-century.
... bow, eighty-one units of distance around, the back like a taut string facing toward the north, the curved front spanning east and south and west. Sixty-three steps lead The sixth court of hell, as portrayed in a nineteenth-century.
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Gods Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan D Spence Ograniczony podgląd - 1996 |
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan D. Spence Ograniczony podgląd - 1996 |
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