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  • Platt, Stephen R.
     
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    Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / Stephen R. Platt.
    by Platt, Stephen R.
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    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.
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  • China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
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  • China -- Relations -- Western countries.
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  • Western countries -- Relations -- China.
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  • China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 -- Participation, Foreign.
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  • 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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    Mililani Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction951.034 PlChecked out05/08/2024Add Copy to MyList
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