Apocalypse Then

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 21, 1996| Author: Marie Arana-Ward | Copyright information

GOD'S CHINESE SON

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Of Hong Xiuquan

By Jonathan D. Spence

Norton. 352 pp. $27.50

HE BEGAN by reading scripture. Then, seeing the time was at hand, he spoke against the evils of the day: the wanton crime, the drug-soaked youth, the degenerate culture, the moral decay. He said there were demons in the government, and in response his followers called him a prophet, organized militias, stockpiled weapons, installed h...

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