PLATT Stephen R. <br/><br/>
Autumn in the heavenly kingdom :  China the West and the epic story of the Taiping Civil war / 
Stephen R. Platt. 
 - New York :  Vintage,   2012. 
 - xxviii, 470 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-447) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307472212 (pbk.) :  16.95 USD 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>VISITORS, FOREIGN -- CHINA -- HISTORY -- 19Th CENTURY<br/>AMERICANS -- CHINA -- HISTORY -- 19TH CENTURY<br/>WESTERN CONTRIES -- RELATIONS -- CHINA