The Taiping rebellion in mid-nineteenth century China was one of the strangest and most violent events in human history. It was led by Hong Xiuquan, a failed civil servant from a peasant family who was convinced by a dream that he was the son of the Christian God, entrusted with the divine task of saving the world.It cost at least twenty million lives-roughly the same number as died on the Russian Front in the Second War World...
xxv, plus 400 pages text with illustrated ends and illustrations to text, and maps
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