A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in mid-nineteenth-century China profiles a period of extreme violence, during which a massive uprising, led by religious visionary Hong Xiuquan, cost some twenty million lives. National ad/promo. Tour.

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

Spence. Jonathan

Religion & Spirituality

HarperCollins Harper Collins

God's Chinese Son : The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

Flamingo

Mao Zedong

Biographies & Memoirs

PRENTICE/HALL

In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning greement, he learnt the details of the plot and informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The riingleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing a wealth of documentary evidence - over 150 secret documents between the Emperor and his agents - the author has recreated this revolt of the scholars in all its details. It a story of unworldly dreams of a better world and the facts of a bureaucratic power, of the kind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.

Treason by the Book

History

Asia

Penguin

<p>One of the world's foremost historians of China, Jonathan Spence presents a concise biography of Mao Zedong, deflating myths and showing how, through relentless energy and ruthless self-confidence, Mao was able to attain so much power and hold on to it for so long. Spence likens him to a 'Lord of Misrule', turning traditional Chinese society upside down in 'a long drawn-out adventure in upheaval'.</p>

Mao (Lives)

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China Helpers: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960

The Bodley Head

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

Professionals & Academics

Faber&Faber

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (Allen Lane History S.)

Literature & Fiction

Allen Lane. Book Condition: Us

Treason by the Book (Allen Lane History)

Allen Lane.

New Lower Price Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period--which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community--has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation. Spanning 150 spectacular years of artistic production, A Century in Crisis offers the first systematic exploration of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self-definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention. Sumptuous color plates showcase a dazzling array of achievements--including Shanghai School paintings, modern calligraphy, commercial art, 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, modern guohua (traditional ink and color paintings), socialist realist paintings and other contemporary works.

A Century in Crisis

Arts & Photography

Kao, Mayching

Andrews, Julia F.

History & Criticism

Guggenheim Museum

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