God's Chinese Son: The Taipei Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.(Brief Article)

The Historian | September 22, 1997| | Copyright

By Jonathan Spence. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996. Pp. xxvii, 400. $27.50.)

Jonathan Spence offers in this volume an engaging account of the Taiping Rebellion, the momentous religious and social movement that shook much of China during the mid-nineteenth century. Drawing on two previously unexamined Taiping texts, as well as on Chinese and Western scholarship and contemporary accounts, Spence takes a fresh look at an already much-scrutinized movement.

The story of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is well known. Hong Xiuquan, after repeatedly ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Zooflagellate phylogeny and the systematics of protozoa.(Evolution: A Molecular Point of View)(includes discussion)
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin ; ...subphylum Protalveolata of the Dinozoa, and not with the Sporozoa. The Sporozoa are once again restricted to nonflagellate endoparasites...cortical alveoli, are transferred from Microsporidia to Sporozoa, as the subphylum Manubrispora; they are probably...
The protozoa, a kingdom by default?
Magazine article from: The American Biology Teacher ; ...fundamental classes within the phylum Protozoa-Mastigophora (flagellates), Sarcodina (amoebae), Infusoria (ciliates), and Sporozoa (gregarines, coccidea)-remains influential (a basis for our proposition of the "full-circle" arrival of knowledge...
Toxoplasmosis in a Bone Marrow Transplant Patient.
Magazine article from: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine ; ...cats; humans and other warm-blooded animals serve as intermediate hosts. It belongs to the subphylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoa, and exists in nature in 3 forms: the oocyst (which releases sporozoites), the tissue cyst (which contains and may release...
Toxoplsmaosis in a bone marrow transplant patient
Magazine article from: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine ; ...cats; humans and other warm-blooded animals serve as intermediate hosts. It belongs to the subphylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoa, and exists in nature in 3 forms: the oocyst (which releases sporozoites), the tissue cyst (which contains and may release...
Cyclospora species as a cause of diarrhoea in humans
Magazine article from: British Journal of Biomedical Science ; ...cayetanensis is smaller than other species of cyclospora common in nature,l'2 and belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoa, order Eucoccidda, family Eimerdae, based on its structure and sporulation characteristics.? Until recently, C. cayetanensis...

Find more facts and information related to the article "God's Chinese Son: The Taipei Heavenly Kingdom of ..."