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Platt, Stephen R.
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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 -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
China -- Relations -- Western countries.
Western countries -- Relations -- China.
China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 -- Participation, Foreign.
China -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Autumn in the Heaven...
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / Stephen R. Platt.
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Platt, Stephen R.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Subjects
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 -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
China -- Relations -- Western countries.
Western countries -- Relations -- China.
China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 -- Participation, Foreign.
China -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780307271730
0307271730
Description:
xxviii, 470 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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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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.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
951.034 Pl
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
951.034 Platt
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McCully-Moiliili Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
951.034 Pl
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Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
951.034 Pl
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Adult Nonfiction
951.034 Pl
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