Imagining the End: Visions of
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– . . Barend J. ter Haar, Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads: Creating an Identity (Leiden, ), particularly chs and
. . The basic narrative of the Taiping movement is presented in Franz Michael, The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents , Vol.
(Seattle, WA, ); Philip A. Kuhn, ‘The Taiping Rebellion’, in Twitchett and Fairbank (eds), The Cambridge History of China, Vol. , Late Ch'ing, – , Part I, pp. –
; and Jonathan D. Spence, God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (New York, ). Spence’s volume does not claim to offer a narrative overview of the movement as a whole. In the overview which follows, I offer neither an original narrative, nor a critique of other narratives. As such, I note only specific facts or statements which might not be found in the basic treatments just mentioned. . The Qing, China’s last dynasty, was ruled by Manchus, a non-Chinese ethnic group originally from present-day China’s northeastern provinces. . See Immanuel C. Y. Hsû, The Rise of Modern China (New York, ), p.
. . On the Boxers, see Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Berkeley, CA, ).
387 . See Spence, God’s Chinese Son , p.
. . Ibid., p. . . Ibid., p. .
. On the Taipings’ relationship to the Triads, see Elizabeth J. Perry, ‘Taipings and Triads: The Rôle of Religion in Inter-Rebel Relations’, in Janos M. Bak and Gerhard Benecke (eds), Religion and Rural Revolt: Papers Presented to the Fourth Interdisciplinary workshop on Peasant Studies (Manchester, ), pp.
– . . Cited in Vincent Y. C. Shih, The Taiping Ideology (Seattle, WA, ).
. Spence, God’s Chinese Son , p.
. . See Robert P. Weller, ‘Historians and Consciousness: The Modern Politics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’, Social Research
, no. (Winter ):
. . This figure is meant to be suggestive, not scientific; I carried it out via computer, checking only titles. . R. G. Tiedemann is preparing a comprehensive guide to Western-language sources on the Taipings. . Prescott Clarke and J. S. Gregory provide invaluable excerpts from this rich literature in their Yüklə 4,01 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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