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

Categorie	Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer	#362866-XK19
Titel	God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
Auteur	Spence, Jonathan
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	HarperCollins Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	0002555840
ISBN13	9780002555845
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	"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 succes... (Lees verder)s 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.
Pagina's	400
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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