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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... Hong's Home Ground, page 27 Hong's First Journey, 1 844, page 70 Areas of God-worshipers' Control, Guangxi, 1846- 1850, page 112 The Battle of Jintian, 1851, page 131 From Yongan to Nanjing, page 157 Nanjing, the Heavenly Capital, 1853 ...
... Hong's Home Ground, page 27 Hong's First Journey, 1 844, page 70 Areas of God-worshipers' Control, Guangxi, 1846- 1850, page 112 The Battle of Jintian, 1851, page 131 From Yongan to Nanjing, page 157 Nanjing, the Heavenly Capital, 1853 ...
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... Hong's own mind and the pulse of the times led him to a literal understanding of elements of this newly encountered religion, so that the Christian texts he read convinced him that he was the younger brother of Jesus, imbued by his ...
... Hong's own mind and the pulse of the times led him to a literal understanding of elements of this newly encountered religion, so that the Christian texts he read convinced him that he was the younger brother of Jesus, imbued by his ...
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... Hong's story; it also helped me understand how Hong, when he at last acquired the Bible, made it so peculiarly his own. And because it was his own, after a period of reflection, he felt free to alter it, so that he could pass God's ...
... Hong's story; it also helped me understand how Hong, when he at last acquired the Bible, made it so peculiarly his own. And because it was his own, after a period of reflection, he felt free to alter it, so that he could pass God's ...
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... Hong has lived surrounded by his family — his father, who has remarried after Hong's mother's death, though there are no children by this second union; two elder brothers and their wives; and one older sister. Hong also has his own new ...
... Hong has lived surrounded by his family — his father, who has remarried after Hong's mother's death, though there are no children by this second union; two elder brothers and their wives; and one older sister. Hong also has his own new ...
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... Hong's ancestors migrated here from the northeastern part of Guangdong province in the 1680s, just as the new county was being formed. They settled and farmed in Guanlubu, to the west of the county town, on a stretch of well-watered ...
... Hong's ancestors migrated here from the northeastern part of Guangdong province in the 1680s, just as the new county was being formed. They settled and farmed in Guanlubu, to the west of the county town, on a stretch of well-watered ...
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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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