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HarperCollins, 1996. First. Hardback. Good. Outline:- 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.-> the publisher of this HARDBACK…
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God's Chinese Son - The Paiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Hardcover - 1996
by Jonathan D. Spence
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- Title God's Chinese Son - The Paiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
- Author Jonathan D. Spence
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 400
- Language ENG
- Publisher W W Norton & Company, Inc., London
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9780002555845
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