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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... WORD 14 HOME GROUND 23 SKY WAR 34 THE KEY 51 WANDERING 66 THE BASE 79 JUDGMENTS 96 ASSEMBLING no EARTH WAR 126 THE FIRST CITY 140 THE HUNT 154 THE EARTHLY PARADISE 172 THREE SHIPS 192 THE SPLIT '10 THE KILLING 234 FAMILY CIRCLES 246.
... WORD 14 HOME GROUND 23 SKY WAR 34 THE KEY 51 WANDERING 66 THE BASE 79 JUDGMENTS 96 ASSEMBLING no EARTH WAR 126 THE FIRST CITY 140 THE HUNT 154 THE EARTHLY PARADISE 172 THREE SHIPS 192 THE SPLIT '10 THE KILLING 234 FAMILY CIRCLES 246.
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... ships to sail on, Its course having turned to shoreland. Shoreland will turn into water, Watercourse back into shoreland.2 In those days, death was seen as a silence and a perpetual waiting, without hope of an awakening. Though there ...
... ships to sail on, Its course having turned to shoreland. Shoreland will turn into water, Watercourse back into shoreland.2 In those days, death was seen as a silence and a perpetual waiting, without hope of an awakening. Though there ...
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... ship plays in the square, to the delight of the Westerners, but to the astonishment and tonal anguish of the listening Chinese.6 Or — a novelty first seen in 1835 at Canton — a steam-driven pleasure boat with band aboard takes parties ...
... ship plays in the square, to the delight of the Westerners, but to the astonishment and tonal anguish of the listening Chinese.6 Or — a novelty first seen in 1835 at Canton — a steam-driven pleasure boat with band aboard takes parties ...
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... ships become junt.s, markets bazaars, lunch tiffin, a letter a chit, one who commands (mandar) a man-ta-le or mandarin, a document a chop, an urgent document chop-chop, one hundred thousand of anything a lac, a laborer a coolie, a ...
... ships become junt.s, markets bazaars, lunch tiffin, a letter a chit, one who commands (mandar) a man-ta-le or mandarin, a document a chop, an urgent document chop-chop, one hundred thousand of anything a lac, a laborer a coolie, a ...
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... Chinese ruffians, and robbed or held to ransom. Stevens sometimes finds it hard to persuade ship's captains to let him use their decks or cabins for his services, for some find him "austere and unsocial," since he shuns everything.
... Chinese ruffians, and robbed or held to ransom. Stevens sometimes finds it hard to persuade ship's captains to let him use their decks or cabins for his services, for some find him "austere and unsocial," since he shuns everything.
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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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