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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.
Table of Contents:
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Chronology of Major Events
  • Prologue: Heaven's Children
  • pt. 1. Twilight
  • The Preacher's Assistant
  • Neutrality
  • The Shield King
  • Soundings
  • An Appointment in the North
  • pt. 2. Order Rising
  • The Reluctant General
  • The Force of Doctrine
  • Perils of Civilization
  • Endurance
  • Heaven and Earth
  • Crossings
  • pt. 3. The Great Peace
  • The Point of No Return
  • Vampires
  • Flowering Rain
  • Blood and Honor
  • Crossing the Mountain
  • Epilogue.

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