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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Stephen R. Platt · 2011 · 300 pages

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This is a history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China into the modern world. It looks at the Taiping Rebellion, which cost some 20 million lives.

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