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Download or read book Taiping Rebel written by Xiucheng Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 His Deposition is the fullest narrative by a participant and an invaluable historical document.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.
Book Synopsis The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by : Thomas H. Reilly
Download or read book The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom written by Thomas H. Reilly and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping leader, Hong Xiuquan, to establish his Heavenly Kingdom on Earth. How were the Taiping rebels, professing this new creed, able to mount their rebellion and recruit multitudes of followers in their sweep through the empire? Thomas Reilly argues that the Taiping faith, although kindled by Protestant sources, developed into a dynamic new Chinese religion whose conception of its sovereign deity challenged the legitimacy of the Chinese empire. The Taiping rebels denounced the divine pretensions of the imperial title and the sacred character of the imperial office as blasphemous usurpations of Shangdi’s title and position. In place of the imperial institution, the rebels called for restoration of the classical system of kingship. Previous rebellions had declared their contemporary dynasties corrupt and therefore in need of revival; the Taiping, by contrast, branded the entire imperial order blasphemous and in need of replacement. In this study, Reilly emphasizes the Christian elements of the Taiping faith, showing how Protestant missionaries built on earlier Catholic efforts to translate Christianity into a Chinese idiom. Prior studies of the rebellion have failed to appreciate how Hong Xiuquan’s interpretation of Christianity connected the Taiping faith to an imperial Chinese cultural and religious context. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shows how the Bible--in particular, a Chinese translation of the Old Testament--profoundly influenced Hong and his followers, leading them to understand the first three of the Ten Commandments as an indictment of the imperial order. The rebels thus sought to destroy imperial culture along with its institutions and Confucian underpinnings, all of which they regarded as blasphemous. Strongly iconoclastic, the Taiping followers smashed religious statues and imperially approved icons throughout the lands they conquered. By such actions the Taiping Rebellion transformed--at least for its followers but to some extent for all Chinese--how Chinese people thought about religion, the imperial title and office, and the entire traditional imperial and Confucian order. This book makes a major contribution to the study of the Taiping Rebellion and to our understanding of the ideology of both the rebels and the traditional imperial order they opposed. It will appeal to scholars in the fields of Chinese history, religion, and culture and of Christian theology and church history.
Book Synopsis Historiography of the Taiping Rebellion by : Ssu-yü Teng
Download or read book Historiography of the Taiping Rebellion written by Ssu-yü Teng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1962-06-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Taiping Rebellion by : Shunshin Chin
Download or read book The Taiping Rebellion written by Shunshin Chin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of one of the epochal events of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion by : Ssu-yü Teng
Download or read book New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion written by Ssu-yü Teng and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by : Stephen R. Platt
Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by : Katherine Paterson
Download or read book Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom written by Katherine Paterson and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mei Lin, a woman warrior, and pigboy Wang Lee find love, intrigue, adventure, and danger as rebels seeking to overthrow the Chinese emperor during the 1850s amid the Taiping Rebellion.
Book Synopsis Resistance, Chaos and Control in China by : Robert Paul Weller
Download or read book Resistance, Chaos and Control in China written by Robert Paul Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-06-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and "cultural resistance", which instead lies unspoken in everyday action. This book argues that certain areas of life defuse attempts at cultural domination by resisting and dissolving all unified interpretation.
Book Synopsis The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers by : Ssu-yü Teng
Download or read book The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers written by Ssu-yü Teng and published by Oxford : Clarendon P.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World of a Tiny Insect by : Zhang Daye
Download or read book The World of a Tiny Insect written by Zhang Daye and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ." So begins Zhang Daye’s preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China’s devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, and imperial troops and witnessed gruesome scenes of violence and death. He lost friends and family and nearly died himself from starvation, illness, and encounters with soldiers on a rampage. Written thirty years later, The World of a Tiny Insect gives voice to this history. A rare premodern Chinese literary work depicting a child’s perspective, Zhang’s sophisticated text captures the macabre images, paranoia, and emotional excess that defined his wartime experience and echoed through his adult life. The structure, content, and imagery of The World of a Tiny Insect offer a carefully constructed, fragmented narrative that skips in time and probes the relationships between trauma and memory, revealing both history and its psychic impact. Xiaofei Tian’s annotated translation includes an introduction that situates The World of a Tiny Insect in Chinese history and literature and explores the relevance of the book to the workings of traumatic memory.
Book Synopsis The Taiping Revolution by : Robert Hsiang Teng Lin
Download or read book The Taiping Revolution written by Robert Hsiang Teng Lin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion. [Reissued. With Pref. by J.K. Fairbank]. by : Ssu-yü Teng
Download or read book New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion. [Reissued. With Pref. by J.K. Fairbank]. written by Ssu-yü Teng and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 by : James Chester Cheng
Download or read book Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 written by James Chester Cheng and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tsêng Kuo-fan and the Taiping Rebellion by : William James Hail
Download or read book Tsêng Kuo-fan and the Taiping Rebellion written by William James Hail and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Taiping Rebellion by : Samuel Mossman
Download or read book The Great Taiping Rebellion written by Samuel Mossman and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Taiping Rebellion 1851–66 by : Ian Heath
Download or read book The Taiping Rebellion 1851–66 written by Ian Heath and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taiping movement began as the Pai Shang-ti Hui (the Society of God-Worshippers), founded in Kwangsi province in 1846 by Hung Hsiu-ch'uan. A sickly individual of questionable sanity. Hung had become subject to visions which interpreted as demonstrating that he was Jesus Christ's 'Divine Younger Brother', with God's mandate to govern China. This fascinating work by Ian Heath examines the organisation, dress and weapons of forces on both sides of the Taiping Rebellion – a conflict which saw the involvement of around 10 million troops during 15 years of conflict; as many as 600 cities change hands time and time again; and 20-30 million deaths.
Download or read book Taiping Rebel written by Hsiu-ch'eng Li and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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