God's Chinese Son-The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.

Spence, Jonathan

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The Taiping rebellion in mid-nineteenth century China was one of the strangest and most violent events in human history. It was led by Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant from a peasant family who was convinced by a dream that he was the son of the Christian God, entrusted with the divine task of saving the world.It cost at least twenty million lives-roughly the same number as died on the Russian Front in the Second War World...

xxv, plus 400 pages text with illustrated ends and illustrations to text, and maps

Details:

  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1996
  • Edition: 1st Edition-UK Edition.
  • Jacket Condition: Fine
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 160 X 240mm
  • Lot No: 71
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