Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Further Papers Relating to the Rebellion in China
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, Now a Part of the Oriental Library, Tokyo, Japan: English books
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Historiography of the Taiping Rebellion
Author: Ssu-yü TengPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) was a pivotal event in modern Chinese history.This civil war was fought between the established Manchu Qing dynasty in power and the millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace.
Taiping Rebel
Author: Xiucheng LiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521210829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Li Hsiu-ch'eng - the Loyal Prince - was the most important military leader on the rebel side during the last years of the Taiping Rebellion in China (1851-64). The Taiping Rebellion has been called the greatest popular revolt in modern history, and it came remarkably close to toppling the Ch'ing empire some fifty years before it was finally overthrown in 1911. Captured in June 1864 by government forces, Li Hsiu-ch'eng spent the final days before his inevitable execution writing a personal account of the Rebellion and his role in it. His Deposition is the fullest narrative by a participant and an invaluable historical document. The original manuscript of the Deposition was withheld by the government commander Tseng Kuo-fan and his descendants, and a shortened, bowdlerized version prepared for publication. Li himself was considered a great revolutionary hero in China until the Cultural Revolution when he was reassessed in a major public debate of considerable political significance.
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Author: Stephen R. PlattPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307957594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Sessional Papers, Printed by Order of the House of Lords, Or Presented by Royal Command, in the Session ..
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Chinese Disaffection Toward the Manchu Dynasty as a Factor in the Taiping Rebellion
Author: Harry Glenn DildinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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