The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of EmpireOccupying much of Imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing over twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions was the Taiping faith of the rebels. Inspired by a Protestant missionary tract, the core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping leader, Hong Xiuquan, to establish his Heavenly Kingdom on Earth. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | 3 |
The Early Catholic Search for the Name of God | 19 |
The Protestant Bible and the Birth of the Taiping Christian Movement | 54 |
The Taiping Challenge to Empire | 78 |
Worship and Witness in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom | 117 |
The Taiping Legacy and Missionary Christianity | 150 |
Notes | 173 |
Glossary | 209 |
| 213 | |
| 225 | |
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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire Thomas H. Reilly Limited preview - 2011 |
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: rebellion and the blasphemy of empire Thomas H. Reilly No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914: [2 Volumes] Carl C. Hodge No preview available - 2007 |