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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.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: God's Chinese Son
• Subtitle: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
• Author: Jonathan D. Spence
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• EAN: 9780393315561
• ISBN: 0393315568
• ID: 09232555
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 644 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 233 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. December 1996

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