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

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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire. By Thomas H. Reilly. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 235. $45.00.)

In this insightful and easily accessible monograph, the author examines the ideological basis of the Taiping Uprising [1851-1864]. The Taiping rebels proclaimed that the Christian God known as Shangdi (the Supreme God of ancient China) had anointed Hong Xiuquan to overthrow the Qing dynasty and establish a "Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace" (Taiping Tianguo). By connecting Taiping Christianity with the culture of ...

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