Stephen Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom provides a compelling and often meticulous account of the aftermath: “not only the most destructive war of the 19th century, but likely the ...

The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history. At least 20 million people perished in this 14-year civil war between a peasant army led by a pseudo ...

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War. By Stephen Platt. Doubleday, $30. The book adopts a fractured narrative structure that, at times ...

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Stephen R. Platt Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pp., $30 ...

“Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War” by Stephen R. Platt. April 27, 2012 More than ...

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Stephen R. Platt. Knopf, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-307-27173-0 ...

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Some 20 million people lost their lives, many of them in grotesque ways. There are enough beheadings, flayings, rapes, suicides, disembowelments, mass killings and acts of cannibalism in Autumn in the ...