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Summary:

This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.

Table of Contents:

• Dramatis Personae
• Chronology of Major Events
• Prologue: Heaven's Children
• pt. 1. Twilight
• The Preacher's Assistant
• Neutrality
• The Shield King
• Soundings
• An Appointment in the North
• pt. 2. Order Rising
• The Reluctant General
• The Force of Doctrine
• Perils of Civilization
• Endurance
• Heaven and Earth
• Crossings
• pt. 3. The Great Peace
• The Point of No Return
• Vampires
• Flowering Rain

• Blood and Honor
• Crossing the Mountain
• Epilogue.

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Author/Creator:

Platt, Stephen R.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War [by Platt, S.R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom [by Platt, S.R.] (1st ed.; New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 — ISBN 9780307271730; LCCN 2011035137; OCLC Number 724650229)

Subjects:

China — History — Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864

China — Relations — Western countries

Western countries — Relations — China

China — History — Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 — Participation, Foreign

Visitors, Foreign — China — History — 19th century

Europeans — China — History — 19th century

Americans — China — History — 19th century

Manchus — History — 19th century

Ethnic conflict — China — History — 19th century

China — Ethnic relations — History — 19th century

Taiping Rebellion (China : 1850-1864)

1800-1899

Visitors, Foreign

Europeans

Americans

Manchus

Ethnic conflict

Ethnic relations

Relations

China

Western countries

Europe

Developed countries

Genres:

History

General Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 470 pages) : illustrations, maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS759 .P57 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780307957597 (electronic bk.)
0307957594 (electronic bk.)
9781299073517 (MyiLibrary)
1299073514 (MyiLibrary)
9780307271730 [Invalid]
0307271730 [Invalid]
9780857897695
0857897691

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40020528449

OCLC Numbers:

776996132