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A failed scholar falls into a fever dream and wakes convinced he is the younger brother of Jesus Christ. Within a decade, that conviction has become an army of a million believers, a captured capital, and a kingdom that rules over more people than most nations on earth. This book traces the full, staggering arc of the Taiping Rebellion, the deadliest civil war in human history, from the eroding soil and simmering ethnic tensions of a collapsing Qing empire to the palace intrigues, purges, and battlefield triumphs of a movement that nearly remade China entirely. Hong Xiuquan's visions carry the Heavenly Kingdom from a Guangxi hillside to the walls of Nanjing, while generals like Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng fight to hold together a cause fracturing from within even as foreign powers, missionaries, and mercenaries circle a war too vast to ignore. It ends in famine, fire, and a starving capital's final collapse, but not before raising questions about faith, justice, and revolution that would outlive the kingdom itself by a century. Drawing on firsthand testimony, missionary letters, and the rediscovered confession of a condemned general, this is narrative history at its most immersive: intimate, brutal, and impossible to put down.
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Casey Norgrove grew up in County Cork where a childhood spent poring over dusty atlases and secondhand history paperbacks grew into a lifelong fascination with the moments when empires buckle under their own weight. That fascination eventually turned toward nineteenth-century China, and in particular the Taiping Rebellion - a conflict Norgrove has come to regard as one of history's most staggering and least understood catastrophes. Drawing on years of independent research into missionary archives, military memoirs, and court records, Norgrove writes narrative history aimed at readers who want scholarship without the jargon and drama without the distortion. When not buried in nineteenth-century source material, Norgrove can usually be found walking the Burren or arguing, unsuccessfully, that history is more thrilling than fiction. Norgrove currently lives and writes on the west coast of Ireland.
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