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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. xxvii, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. OCLC 32394662 ; ISBN: 9780393315561, 0393315568 LCCN 95017245 Classification - LC DS758.23.H85 S64 1996 Classification - Dewey 951.034092 ; embossed dark orange cloth in color pictorial price-clipped dustjacket ; "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. ; Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey, England on August 11, 1936. He received a B.A. in history from Clare College, Cambridge University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. As a historian specializing in Chinese history, he wrote several books including The Search for Modern China, The Death of Woman Wang, and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. ; Contents: Walls -- The Word -- Home Ground -- Sky War -- The Key -- Wandering -- The BASE -- Judgments -- Assembling -- Earth War -- The First City -- The Hunt -- The Earthly Paradise -- Three Ships -- The Split -- The Killing -- Family Circles -- The Wrong Man -- Priestking -- Snowfall -- Partings -- Notes -- Bibliography Of Works Cited ; small nick on dustjacket, else FINE/FINE. Book.…