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God's Chinese Son
Door Jonathan Spence
| Categorie | Geschiedenis Azië |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #362866 |
| Titel | God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan |
| Auteur | Spence, Jonathan |
| Boektype | Paperback |
| Uitgeverij | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Jaar van uitgave | 1996 |
| ISBN10 | 0002555840 |
| ISBN13 | 9780002555845 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | "A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."-- Washington Post Book World 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. |
| Pagina's | 400 |
| Conditie | Goed |
| Prijs | € 10,00 |
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