- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/3400198/9780393315561.jpg)
- Author: Jonathan D Spence
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393315568
- ISBN-13: 9780393315561
- Format: 15.6 x 23.3 x 2.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
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.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 21d.04:04:13
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Jonathan D Spence
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393315568
- ISBN-13: 9780393315561
- Format: 15.6 x 23.3 x 2.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
Reviews