The Taiping Ideology

Author : Vincent Yu-chung Shih,Youzhong Shi
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0295952431

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The Taiping Ideology by Vincent Yu-chung Shih,Youzhong Shi Pdf

Professor Shih's philosophically oriented study...brilliantly transcends the many limitations of prior inquiries. In three tightly knit sections, Mr. Shih explores the principal elements of Taiping ideology, probes its underlying historical and cultural roots, and evaluates the numerous interpretations adduced since the upheavel itself...More original research and groundbreaking scholarship are reflected in each chapter of this book than in most complete volumes of comparable scope.

Author : Youzhong Shi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : China
ISBN : 0296952435

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The Taiping Ideology by Youzhong Shi Pdf

Author : Vincent Y. C.. Shih
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:246475672

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The Taiping Ideology by Vincent Y. C.. Shih Pdf

Author : Eugene Powers Boardman
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000603624

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Christian Influence Upon the Ideology of the Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864 by Eugene Powers Boardman Pdf

Author : Ssu-yü Teng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005282731

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New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion by Ssu-yü Teng Pdf

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Americans
ISBN : 9780307271730

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt Pdf

A gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles--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. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.

Author : Robert Hsiang Teng Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000002510977

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The Taiping Revolution by Robert Hsiang Teng Lin Pdf

Author : Xiucheng Li,Charles Anthony Curwen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0521210828

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Taiping Rebel by Xiucheng Li,Charles Anthony Curwen Pdf

Li Hsiu-ch'eng - the Loyal Prince - was the most important military leader on the rebel side during the last years of the Taiping Rebellion in China (1851-64). The Taiping Rebellion has been called the greatest popular revolt in modern history, and it came remarkably close to toppling the Ch'ing empire some fifty years before it was finally overthrown in 1911. Captured in June 1864 by government forces, Li Hsiu-ch'eng spent the final days before his inevitable execution writing a personal account of the Rebellion and his role in it. His Deposition is the fullest narrative by a participant and an invaluable historical document. The original manuscript of the Deposition was withheld by the government commander Tseng Kuo-fan and his descendants, and a shortened, bowdlerized version prepared for publication. Li himself was considered a great revolutionary hero in China until the Cultural Revolution when he was reassessed in a major public debate of considerable political significance.

Author : Carl S. Kilcourse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137537287

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Taiping Theology by Carl S. Kilcourse Pdf

This book examines the theological worldview of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64), a Chinese revolutionary movement whose leader, Hong Xiuquan (1814–64), claimed to be the second son of God and younger brother of Jesus. Despite the profound impact of Christian books on Hong’s religious thinking, previous scholarship has neglected the localized form of Christianity that he and his closest followers created. Filling that gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the localization of Christianity in the theology, ethics, and ritual practices of the Taipings. Carl S. Kilcourse not only reveals how Confucianism and popular religion acted as instruments of localization, but also suggests that several key aspects of the Taipings’ localized religion were inspired by terms and themes from translated Christian texts. Emphasizing this link between vernacularization and localization, Kilcourse demonstrates both the religious identity of the Taipings and their wider significance in the history of world Christianity.

Author : Hong Beom Rhee
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934043424

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Asian Millenarianism by Hong Beom Rhee Pdf

This groundbreaking book reexamines the Taiping and the Tonghak movements in 19th-century Asia. Providing an understanding of the movements as an expression, in part, of deeply rooted Asian spiritual ideas, the work also offers historical and philosophical reflections on what studies of Asian millenarianism can contribute to the comparative study of millenarianism.

Author : Xiaowei Zheng
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503601093

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The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China by Xiaowei Zheng Pdf

“A fascinating story . . . worth the attention of every student of modern China.” —The Journal of Asian Studies China’s 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles. Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution, the popularization of those ideas, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it.

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393285864

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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence Pdf

"A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.

Author : Tobie Meyer-Fong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804785594

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What Remains by Tobie Meyer-Fong Pdf

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and communities grappled with fundamental questions of loyalty and loss as they struggled to rebuild shattered cities, bury the dead, and make sense of the horrors that they had witnessed. Driven by compelling accounts of raw emotion and deep injury, What Remains opens a window to a world described by survivors themselves. This book transforms our understanding of China's 19th century and recontextualizes suffering and loss in China during the 20th century.

Author : Claude Emerson Welch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0873954416

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Anatomy of Rebellion by Claude Emerson Welch Pdf

Anatomy of Rebellion provides an understanding of four rebellions that will make clear the factors that are crucial in the development of other rebellions. Seeking a political pattern in the process of rebellion, Claude Welch, Jr., has investigated four large-scale rural uprisings that came close to becoming revolutions: the Taiping rebellion in China 1850-64, the Telengana uprising in India of 1946-51, the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya of 1952-56, the Kwilu uprising in Zaire of 1963-65. Weaving the facts of these rebellions with theories about political violence, Welch follows the rebellions through the initial stages of discontent to the explosion of violence to the suppression of the uprisings. He then challenges explanations of political violence, both Marxist and non-Marxist, that other scholars have proposed. Rebellions have not been studied as thoroughly as the major successful revolutions, although the frequency of rebellions in the modern world is not likely to diminish. Rural dwellers' discontents are still clashing with central governments' ambitions; Anatomy of Rebellion clarifies how this volatile type of political violence occurs.

Author : Jonathan Spence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241959145

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Treason By The Book by Jonathan Spence Pdf

In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.