《God's Chinese Son》是W W Norton & Co Inc出版的圖書，作者是Jonathan D Spence
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780393038446
- 作者：Jonathan D Spence
- 出版社：W W Norton & Co Inc
- 出版時間：1996年1月
- 頁數：400
- 定價：USD 27.50
- 裝幀：Hardcover
內容簡介
"A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."-- Washington Post Book World 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 g...(展開全部) "A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."-- Washington Post Book World 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, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead. 史景遷（Jonathan D,Spence），世界著名漢學家，現任美國歷史學會主席。史氏以研究中國歷史見長（從他取名蘊含景仰司馬遷之意可見他對此專業的熱愛）。他以獨特的視角觀察悠久的中國歷史，並以不同一般的“講故事”的方式向讀者介紹他的觀察與研究結果。他的作品敏銳、深邃、獨特而又“好看”，使他在成為蜚聲國際的漢學家的同時，也成為學術暢銷書的寫作高手。
