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

Spence. Jonathan

Religion & Spirituality

HarperCollins Harper Collins

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

Flamingo

Mao Zedong

Biographies & Memoirs

PRENTICE/HALL

In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning greement, he learnt the details of the plot and informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The riingleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing a wealth of documentary evidence - over 150 secret documents between the Emperor and his agents - the author has recreated this revolt of the scholars in all its details. It a story of unworldly dreams of a better world and the facts of a bureaucratic power, of the kind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.

Treason by the Book

History

Asia

Penguin

<p>One of the world's foremost historians of China, Jonathan Spence presents a concise biography of Mao Zedong, deflating myths and showing how, through relentless energy and ruthless self-confidence, Mao was able to attain so much power and hold on to it for so long. Spence likens him to a 'Lord of Misrule', turning traditional Chinese society upside down in 'a long drawn-out adventure in upheaval'.</p>

Mao (Lives)

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The Bodley Head

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

Professionals & Academics

Faber&Faber

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (Allen Lane History S.)

Literature & Fiction

Allen Lane. Book Condition: Us

In this blend of history, literature and politics, Jonathan Spence gets to the heart of the complex personality of Chairman Mao Zedong. The biography penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained.

Historical

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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