God's Chinese Son: The Chinese Heavenly Kingdom Of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence

God's Chinese Son: The Chinese Heavenly Kingdom Of Hong Xiuquan

Jonathan D. Spence

512 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Taiping Revolution in the mid 19th-century cost 20 million lives. It was led by Hong Xiuquan, a visionary, who believed he had been charged to destroy the "demon devils" who did not share his beliefs. After many battles, massacres and sieges, ...

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