Thomas H. Reilly. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire.(Book review)

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Thomas H. Reilly. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2004. 232 pp. Hardcover $45.00, ISBN 0-295-98430-9.

The Taiping rebellion generated a massive peasant movement that in the second part of the nineteenth century transformed the society of China and its imperial institution. Several arguments can be made as to the fundamental cause of a historical event of such tragic magnitude. Perhaps it was a combination of socio-economic and political factors that gave impetus to the creation ...

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