TY  - BOOK
AU  - PLATT Stephen R.
TI  - Autumn in the heavenly kingdom: China the West and the epic story of the Taiping Civil war 
SN  - 9780307472212 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage, 
KW  - VISITORS, FOREIGN
KW  -  CHINA
KW  -  HISTORY
KW  -  19Th CENTURY
KW  - AMERICANS
KW  -  19TH CENTURY
KW  - WESTERN CONTRIES
KW  -  RELATIONS
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-447) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -