MARC Record from Harvard University

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100 1 $aPlatt, Stephen R.
245 10 $aAutumn in the Heavenly Kingdom :$bChina, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War /$cStephen R. Platt.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2012.
300 $axxviii, 470 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDramatis Personae -- Chronology of Major Events -- Prologue: Heaven's Children -- pt. 1. Twilight -- The Preacher's Assistant -- Neutrality -- The Shield King -- Soundings -- An Appointment in the North -- pt. 2. Order Rising -- The Reluctant General -- The Force of Doctrine -- Perils of Civilization -- Endurance -- Heaven and Earth -- Crossings -- pt. 3. The Great Peace -- The Point of No Return -- Vampires -- Flowering Rain -- Blood and Honor -- Crossing the Mountain -- Epilogue.
520 $aThis 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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