The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Klappentext Thomas H. Reilly is assistant professor of Chinese history and Asian studies at Pepperdine University. Zusammenfassung Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. This book deals with this topic.

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Thomas H. Reilly is associate professor of Asian studies at Pepperdine University.

Klappentext
Thomas H. Reilly is assistant professor of Chinese history and Asian studies at Pepperdine University.

Zusammenfassung
Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. This book deals with this topic.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Early Catholic Search for the Name of God

2. The Protestant Bible and the Birth of the Taiping Christian Movement

3. The Taiping Challenge to Empire

4. Worship and Witness in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

5. The Taiping Legacy and Missionary Christianity

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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