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

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

Stephen R. Platt, Stephen R. Platt

781 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
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In the early 1850s, during the waning years of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of the this movement - who called themselves the Taiping - was Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant who claimed...

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