Autumn of Heaven

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

2012 Cundill Prize for History (the world's highest-paying historical writing award)
Pei Shifeng vividly recreates… the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century. This war claimed one of the highest numbers of lives in human history. Its profound impact continues to linger in China today. "The Autumn of the Heavenly Kingdom" is a captivating work by a leading historian and exceptional writer.
—Henry A. Kissinger The meticulous historical exposition of authors like "On China" and "Diplomacy" is a superb example. The Chinese Civil War, which lasted from the early 1850s to 1864, was arguably the deadliest civil war in human history. With vivid and detailed prose, Pierce depicts how the fate of China's rulers and their tens of millions of subjects was manipulated by British diplomatic and commercial interests, and influenced by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's own unorthodox religious and political ideologies. It's a tragic and deeply moving story.
—Jonathan Spence, author of "In Search of Modern China" and "Reign of the Great Khans," among others

2014-11-01

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