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

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,Marvelous and new. . . . [Spence] is the pre-eminent literary historian of China. A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity. --