God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Fiction Winner of the Coretta Scott

Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award

devastated imperial China

" --Lee Child

never once bringing charges against the officials involved in the retaking and its aftermath and neglecting to provide support to the survivors and the families of the men who had been killed

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Fiction Winner of the Coretta ScottTitle: God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Author: Jonathan D Spence ISBN: 9780393315561 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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