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

Stephen R. Platt

512 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the early 1850s, during the twilight of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant who claimed to be t...

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