God's Chinese Son: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Spence, Jonathan - 1996

HarperCollins Harper Collins. Used - Very Good. . 1st. hardcover. Very Good.

Thin, pink line drawn across top edge. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Tight binding; fine dust jacket. Overall in excellent reading condition.Very Good

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

HarperCollins, 1996. First. Hardback. Good. Outline:- 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.-> the publisher of this HARDBACK… Read More

HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Original green boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.

Fine. This copy looks as never been open, with little wear.