God's Chinese Son

Explore the largest uprising in human history and the foreshadowing of China's terrible convulsions in God's Chinese Son. This powerful historical account follows the Taiping rebellion of 1845-64, with the failed Confucian student Hong Xiuquan at its center. After ascending to heaven in a dream and meeting his heavenly family, including God and Jesus, he returns to earth with a mission to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success leads him and his followers to rule a large part of south China for over a decade, until their decline and fall results in the death of over 20 million Chinese. Witness the narrative power of a great historian at his best in this must-read book.