Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
By Stephen R. Platt
Read by Angela Lin
Unabridged
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Library CD (In Stock)
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781664407725
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ISBN: 9781664515550
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ISBN: 9781664663053
| Runtime: | 17.56 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A 2012 Washington Post Notable Book for Nonfiction
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Narrator Angela Lin keeps the story moving with her vocal clarity and excellent pacing, and she’s adept at pronouncing the Chinese names.” —AudioFile
“The ambitious scale and lively writing make Platt’s book an excellent entree into a pivotal event in world history.” —Choice magazine
“A refreshing and gripping account that illuminates how
civil conflicts can suck in outsiders and why the West has had great
difficulties in trying to maintain a façade of neutrality and protect its
commercial interests at the same time…Autumn
in the Heavenly Kingdom…is powerful, dramatic, and unforgettable.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A compelling and often meticulous account…Platt is at his best
when dissecting the often absurd dynamics of Western intervention.” —Daily Beast
“Splendid…An upheaval that led to the deaths of twenty million,
dwarfing the simultaneously fought American Civil War, deserves to be
better known, and Platt accomplishes this with a superb history of a
nineteenth-century China faced with internal disorder and predatory Western
intrusions.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Platt presents the perplexing Taiping Rebellion that convulsed China’s Qing dynasty from 1851 to 1864…Incorporating his perceptive characterizations and a comprehensible
account of Zeng’s ultimately victorious military campaigns, Platt has
skillfully converted his erudition into an eminently general-interest
treatment of what may have been the most lethal civil war in world
history.” —Booklist (starred review)
Author
Author Bio: Stephen R. Platt
Stephen R. Platt is a professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom was a Washington Post notable book, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and winner of the Cundill History Prize.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 17.56 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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