Screen LibraryAutumn in the Heavenly Kingdom：China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War
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Vintage Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 470 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780307472212 (pbk.) 0307472213 |
| Index Number: | K254 |
| CLC: | K254 |
| Call Number: | K254/P719 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-447) and index. 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. 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. |