God’s Chinese Son - The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D Spence.pdf

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. . . and there shall be
Beautiful things made new, for the surprise
Of the sky-children.
—John Keats, “Hyperion”
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of M aps
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 | WALLS
2 | THE WORD
3 | HOM E GROUND
4 | SKY WAR
5 | THE KEY
6 | WANDERING
7 | THE BASE
8 | JUDGM ENTS
9 | ASSEM BLING
10 | EARTH WAR
11 | THE FIRST CITY
12 | THE HUNT
13 | THE EARTHLY PARADISE
14 | THREE SHIPS
15 | THE SPLIT
16 | THE KILLING
17 | FAM ILY CIRCLES
18 | THE WRONG M AN
19 | NEW WORLDS
20 | PRIEST-KING
21 | SNOWFALL
22 | PARTINGS
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
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List of Illustrations
Frontispiece
The Taiping seal
Pages 10–11
Foreign Factory Site at Canton
The American Factory in Canton
Karl Gutzlaff
Pages 40–41
Images from the Jade Record:
The Sixth Layer of Hell
“Life-is-short”
“Death-has-gradations”
Page 175: A Taiping household registration document
Pages 212–15
Scenes from the retreat and defeat of the Taiping Northern Expeditionary Forces, 1853–
1855
Between pages 274 and 275
Letter of the British missionary Joseph Edkins, “covered with vermilion corrections”
from Hong Xiuquan
Page 281: Images from Hong Xiuquan’s 1853 edition of Pilgrim’s Progress
Page 313: The Ever-Victorious Army
Pages 318–21
“Pacify the Southern Bandits”: Qing paintings depicting their victories over the Taiping
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