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Autumn In The Heavenly Kingdom
In the early 1850s during the waning years of the Qing dynasty word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of the this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and the brother of Jesus Christ. As the revolt grew and battles raged across the empire all signs pointed to a Taiping victory and to the inauguration of a modern industrialized and pro-Western china. Soon however Britain and the United States threw their support behind the Qing soon quashing the Taiping and rendering ineffective the years of bloodshed the revolution had endured. In Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom Stephen Platt recounts the events of the rebellion and its suppression in spellbinding detail. It is an essential and
enthralling history of the rise and fall of a movement that a century and a half ago might have launched China into the modern world.
enthralling history of the rise and fall of a movement that a century and a half ago might have launched China into the modern world.
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