Ebook: God's Chinese son: the Taiping heavenly kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

Walls -- Word -- Home ground -- Sky war -- Key -- Wandering -- Base -- Judgments -- Assembling -- Earth war -- First city -- Hunt -- Earthly paradise -- Three ships -- Split -- Killing -- Family circles -- Wrong man -- New worlds -- Priest-king -- Snowfall -- Partings.;[This book is an] account of the largest uprising in human history. At the center of this history of China's Taiping Rebellion1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confusian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream, meets his heavenly family - God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus - and returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. By the time his terrible reign comes to an end, twenty million Chinese lie dead.-Back cover.