God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan - Softcover

Spence, Jonathan D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393315568 ISBN 13: 9780393315561

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1997

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"Marvelous and new. . . . [Spence] is the pre-eminent literary historian of China." -- Richard Bernstein - New York Times

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393315568
• ISBN 13: 9780393315561
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448