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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...

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Main Author: Platt, Stephen R.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Visitors, Foreign > China > History > 19th century.
Europeans > China > History > 19th century.
Americans > China > History > 19th century.
Manchus > History > 19th century.
Ethnic conflict > China > History > 19th century.
China > History > Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
China > Relations > Western countries.
Western countries > Relations > China.
China > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
Summary: 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.
Item Description: "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description: xxvii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-447) and index.
ISBN: 9780307271730
0307271730
Author Notes: Stephen R. Platt received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Yale University, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is also the author of Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China . An undergraduate English major, he spent two years after college as a teacher in the Yale-China program in Hunan province. His research has been supported by the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.

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