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

By Platt , Stephen R

Book information

Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Year
2012
ISBN
9780307957597, 9780307271730, 0307957594, 9780857897695, 0857897691, 9781299073517, 1299073514
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6645157 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
(xxviii, 470 pages) : illustrations, maps\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1850-1Americans--China--History;Americans--China--HistorForeign--China--History--19th century;Manchus;VisiForeign;Military participation--Foreign;Americans;

Description

Dramatis Personae -- Chronology of Major Events -- Prologue: Heaven's Children -- pt. 1. Twilight -- The Preacher's Assistant -- Neutrality -- The Shield King -- Soundings -- An Appointment in the North -- pt. 2. Order Rising -- The Reluctant General -- The Force of Doctrine -- Perils of Civilization -- Endurance -- Heaven and Earth -- Crossings -- pt. 3. The Great Peace -- The Point of No Return -- Vampires -- Flowering Rain -- Blood and Honor -- Crossing the Mountain -- Epilogue.;This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.

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