{"product_id":"gods-chinese-son-the-taiping-heavenly-kingdom-of-hong-xiuquan-9780393315561","title":"God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan D. Spence\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, \u003cem\u003eGod's Chinese Son\u003c\/em\u003e must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the \"demon-devils,\" the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45030403440791,"sku":"9780393315561","price":2153.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780393315561.webp?v=1769198556","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gods-chinese-son-the-taiping-heavenly-kingdom-of-hong-xiuquan-9780393315561","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}