{"product_id":"9780393285864","title":"God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity.\"--\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, \u003cem\u003eGod's Chinese Son\u003c\/em\u003e must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the \"demon-devils,\" the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077728846064,"sku":"9780393285864","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393285864_p0.jpg?v=1763696937","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393285864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}