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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

Stephen R. Platt

512 pages digital 2012

6 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels dr...

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