God’s Chinese Son (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan D. Spence
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The middle third of the nineteenth century
- Setting: South China
- Principal Characters: Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Shi Dakai, Hong Rengan, Issachar Roberts
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: History, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Christianity, China or Chinese people, East and West, Civil wars, Theology
- Locales: China
Lasting a decade and a half and costing in excess of twenty million Chinese lives, the mid-nineteenth century Taiping Rebellion stands as one of the most devastating civil wars the world has ever seen. Its desolation of entire counties in China’s rich Yangzi valley provinces stunted that country’s economic and societal development and weakened the central government to the advantage of provincial military leaders. More than any other conflict, the Taiping Rebellion signaled that the peaceful and prosperous era of eighteenth century China was but a distant memory. It also...
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