Gods Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Of Hong XiuquanW. W. Norton & Company, 1996 - 400 من الصفحات "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 Post Book World 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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1 WALLS | 3 |
CONTENTS | 13 |
THE WORD | 14 |
HOME GROUND | 23 |
SKY WAR | 34 |
THE KEY | 51 |
WANDERING | 66 |
THE BASE | 79 |
EARTH WAR | 126 |
THE FIRST CITY | 140 |
THE HUNT | 154 |
THE EARTHLY PARADISE | 172 |
THREE SHIPS | 192 |
THE SPLIT | 210 |
THE KILLING | 234 |
FAMILY CIRCLES | 246 |
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