Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
by Stephen R. Platt · first published 2011
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt is a fantastic popular history of the Taiping Rebellion. He's especially good on covering the weathervaning western attitude towards something that was initially believed to be a sort…
on “The Chinese Civil Examinations” ↗These are not 1000 page books (but combined they can be): - God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (more about the Taiping and their leader) - Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (more about the west's actions) I just saw this book on Amazon and haven't read so might be a good read to round out the history: Struggle…
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