God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (eBook)

Jonathan D. Spence (Autor)

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1996
432 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-28586-4 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."e;--Washington Post Book WorldWhether 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 "e;demon-devils,"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.1996
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th century • Biography • China • Christianity • Guangxi • History • Manchu • peasant revolt • Qing Dynasty • Revolution • taiping civil war • Taiping Rebellion • Total War • uprising
• ISBN-10: 0-393-28586-3 / 0393285863
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28586-4 / 9780393285864