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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

Auteur(s): Stephen R. Platt
Narrateur(s): Angela Lin
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Stephen R. Platt is widely respected for his incisive nonfiction, particularly in regard to his knowledge and understanding of China. With Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Platt details the absorbing narrative of the Taiping Rebellion, which resulted in the loss of 20 million lives. Occurring in the 1850s, this is the story of a cultural movement characterized by intriguing personages such as influential military strategist Zeng Guofan and brilliant Taiping leader Hong Rengan.

©2012 Stephen R. Platt (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC Asie Militaire Monde Impérialisme Chine Guerre civile Guerre Japon impérial Histoire ancienne Redevances Russie

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“China’s brutal Taiping Civil War erupted in the 1850s and raged until the fall of rebel-held Nanjing in 1864. The bloodbath paralleled our own North-South conflict, but dwarfed it in terms of casualties, geography and global fallout . . . [Platt] juxtaposes the competing ideologies and leaders of the ruling Manchu Qing dynasty and the Hunan Taiping rebels with savvy and assurance. By neatly folding in the machinations of the British, Platt paints a picture of combat dire enough to have choked the Yangtze’s flow several times with discarded victims.” (Jonathan E. Lazarus, Newark Star-Ledger)
“Splendid . . . An upheaval that led to the deaths of 20 million, dwarfing the simultaneously fought American Civil War, deserves to be better known, and Platt accomplishes this with a superb history of a 19th-century China faced with internal disorder and predatory Western intrusions.” ( Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
“Stephen Platt brings to vivid life a pivotal chapter in China’s history that has been all but forgotten: the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century, which cost one of the greatest losses of life of any war in history. It had far-reaching consequences that still reverberate in contemporary China. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a fascinating work by a first-class historian and superb writer.” (Henry Kissinger)
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The books delves into the events and various perspectives of both Western (Brit, American) and Chinese (Qing, Taiping). Very complex sequences of events, while we know how they ended in hindsight, the paths were not nearly as clear cut during that process. This rebellion also has clear implications for the uprisings / rebellions after (Republic of China, CCP). Insightful read for a Chinese native who grew up being taught primarily the CCP version of events. In any case, Taiping Rebellion isn’t talked about nearly as much as the civil wars of the 20th century, or the opium war.

Slightly disappointing is the voice performance of this audiobook. While not lacking in intensity, the narration tends to be too high strung to listen to for more than 10-15 mins at a time. I felt like being disciplined by a school principal while listening to this. In comparison, I preferred the softer tone of Mark Deakin who narrated the Imperial Twilight by the same author. I will have to read this book in paper form now to revisit the parts I sped through.

Intricate accounts of an often overlooked event in the Qing Dynasty

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