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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
By Platt, Stephen R.
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- 9780307271730
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- Knopf
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Reviewed on February 1, 2012 | Social Sciences
By the 1850s, China's Qing dynasty had held power for over 200 years, with peasants more and more having to endure privation, starvation, and disease. Ordinary Chinese believed the Qing, who were ethnic Manchu, were ineffective against "foreign devils" and in the Opium Wars with Britain. Enter Hong Xiuquan, failed civil servant and a convert to Christianity who believed he was Jesus's brother. He set off the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
