The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath by Zhang Daye

The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath

Zhang Daye with Xiaofei Tian (Translator)

208 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ."So begins Zhang Daye's preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China's devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zh...

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