Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

Name: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
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ISBN: 9780307472212

ISBN-10: 0307472213

ISBN-13: 9780307472212

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Authors: Stephen R. Platt

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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 Kingdombrims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.02" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

?Stephen R. Platt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.



Dramatis Personae


Chronology of Major Events


Preface


A Note on Romanization


Maps


Prologue: Heaven's Children



Twilight



The Preacher's Assistant



Neutrality



The Shield King



Soundings



An Appointment in the North



Order Rising



A Reluctant General



The Force of Doctrine



The Perils of Civilization



Endurance



Heaven and Earth



Crossings



The Great Peace



The Point of No Return



Vampires



Flowering Rain



Blood and Honor



Crossing the Mountain


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index