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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... L. Self, Wilson Quarterly "Richly detailed . . . Will mesmerize history buffs and China watchers alike." — Booklist Thie One. C8J8-KKQ-CD92. "The history of the Taiping Rebellion is a macabre epic. More. Praise. for. God's. Chinese. Son.
... L. Self, Wilson Quarterly "Richly detailed . . . Will mesmerize history buffs and China watchers alike." — Booklist Thie One. C8J8-KKQ-CD92. "The history of the Taiping Rebellion is a macabre epic. More. Praise. for. God's. Chinese. Son.
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... gods are joss from Deos; and a religious service is thus a "joss pidgin." Sex is "lof- pidgin." Thieves become la-de-loons from ladrao, ships become junt.s, markets bazaars, lunch tiffin, a letter a chit, one who ... GOD'S CHINESE SON.
... gods are joss from Deos; and a religious service is thus a "joss pidgin." Sex is "lof- pidgin." Thieves become la-de-loons from ladrao, ships become junt.s, markets bazaars, lunch tiffin, a letter a chit, one who ... GOD'S CHINESE SON.
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... God's power as creator, and of His Ten Commandments, and used a variety of Paul's epistles to describe God's anger and His mercy. Carving the wooden blocks himself, Liang printed two hundred copies, and had just begun distributing them ...
... God's power as creator, and of His Ten Commandments, and used a variety of Paul's epistles to describe God's anger and His mercy. Carving the wooden blocks himself, Liang printed two hundred copies, and had just begun distributing them ...
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... God's word in China, how much should one try to be, or act, Chinese? Stevens knows something of the different adaptive skills shown by different missionaries at different times. He has been privileged by two years' friendship with ...
... God's word in China, how much should one try to be, or act, Chinese? Stevens knows something of the different adaptive skills shown by different missionaries at different times. He has been privileged by two years' friendship with ...
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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 |
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan D. Spence Widok fragmentu - 1996 |
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