God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

di Jonathan D. Spence (Autore)

WW Norton & Co, 1997

Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.

• Autore: Jonathan D. Spence
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 1997
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 432 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 157 mm
• Peso: 652 gr.
• EAN: 9780393315561

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