Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War
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...
| Main Author: | Platt, Stephen R. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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