10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HONG XIU QUAN»
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1
Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese
The most important flaw in Hong Xiu Quan's rebellion was his use of Christianity
as the symbol and life force in his struggle, without realizing that China was
essentially Confucianist and Buddhistic. In the initial period of the rebellion, ...
2
The Role of Revelation in the World's Religions
They give him a new name, Hong Xiu Quan, and a formal title: Heavenly King,
Lord of the Kingly Way, Quan. Having returned to earth, Hong awakens from his
long sleep shouting strange slogans of battle and running around the house like
a ...
3
Samurai Cat Goes To Hell
wearing yellow-silk imperial robes, peacock feathers nodding in his hat; HONG
Xiu-QuAN read the name on his tomb. He left off lecturing an oversized terrapin
next door as Shiro came up. "And what do you want?" he asked. "Can't you see I'
m ...
4
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of ...
He describes how, for example, Hong Xiu- quan's vision of his journey to Heaven
, where he was commissioned by the Heavenly Father to preach to the people
and to slay demons, prepared the way for his reading of Good Words to
Admonish ...
5
Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture
Unlike Hong Xiu- quan's rebels to the south, the Nian have no direct religious
affiliation or political program. Most are poor peasants, landless single men.
January 11, 1851: Hong Xiuquan declares himself king of the Heavenly Kingdom
of ...
John Stewart Bowman, 2000
6
Religion - One Man's Overview
The successive emperors would then claim deity status on the grounds that they
were descendents of the deity. In the nineteenth century, the revolutionary Hong
Xiu Quan, pronouncing himself to be the second son of (the Christian) God,45 42
...
7
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of
Hong Xiuquan
From this time onward, it is Feng and Hong Rengan who share Hong Xiu- quan's
innermost councils — and despite his sword Li Jingfang drifts out of the inner
circle of believers.3 Rereading Liang's text with his two new converts, Hong ...
8
The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
... is removed from Hong Xiu-quan and the source of his doctrine in Christian and
classical Chinese texts, and placed upon the peasants who rallied to his sect.
China, like any peasant culture, had innumerable teachers, prophets, or just plain
...
Government troops were out in full force against the rebels. News that the rebel
leader Hong Xiu Quan had gone into hiding confused people. Chaos reigned in
the streets as the rebels led by Hong clashed with the splinter group under
Hong's ...
10
Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the
Hong Kong Cemetery
... Wong, wife of John, 495–6 Hume, E.J., U.S. Navy, 235 Hung Chuen Fook (
Hong Chun Kui), 63, 505–7 Hung Hsiu Chuan (Hong Xiu Quan), 63, 505 Hung
Kam Ning, 515 Professionals, 78, 82, 93, 94, 143–52, 389–90 Chinese
professionals, ...
