Autumn in the heavenly kingdom : China the West and the epic story of the Taiping Civil war / Stephen R. Platt.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage, 2012.Description: xxviii, 470 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780307472212 (pbk.) :
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-447) and index.
This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history.
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