T’oung-pao
, nos
–
(
):
–
.
. 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,
).
Notes to Chapters 12 and 13
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
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