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Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Jonathan D. Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-12-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"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
God's Chinese Son
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Jonathan D. Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father - attired in black dragon robe and high-brimmed hat, his mouth a
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Language: en
Pages: 514
Authors: Stephen R. Platt
Categories: Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Knopf

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A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforget
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Language: en
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Authors: Thomas H. Reilly
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant
The Search for Modern China
Language: en
Pages: 1054
Authors: Jonathan D. Spence
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.