{"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":"Whether 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpence, Jonathan D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJonathan D. Spence\u003c\/strong\u003e is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he has taught for thirty years. He has been awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Award. \u003cem\u003eThe Search for Modern China\u003c\/em\u003e won the Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692707418386,"sku":"9780393315561","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee82088b-5e5a-4a1d-9d89-9bc30ed3eb59.jpg?v=1734131829","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gods-chinese-son-the-taiping-heavenly-kingdom-of-hong-xiuquan-9780393315561","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}