Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Platt, Stephen R.

Editorial Vintage USA
Fecha de edición diciembre 2012 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780307472212
512 páginas
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Resumen del libro

A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history-a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.

The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China's future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China's modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.

Stephen R. Platt received his Ph.D. in Chinese history at Yale and teaches Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also the author of Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. His work has been supported by the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Stephen R. Platt es profesor de Historia de China en la Universidad de Massachusetts Amherst. Su último libro, x{0026}lt;i Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil Warx{0026}lt;/i fue Libro Destacado del x{0026}lt;i Washington Post,x{0026}lt;/i Selección del Editor del x{0026}lt;i New York Times Book Reviewx{0026}lt;/i y ganador del Premio de Historia Cundill. Platt vive con su mujer y sus hijos en Northampton, Massachusetts.x{0026}lt;/p





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