10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUNG HSIU-CH'UAN»
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Hung Hsiu-ch'uan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Taiping Rebel: The Deposition of Li
Hsiu-
chʻeng
That Hung Hsiu-ch'Uan was not party to the plan to kill Yang is borne out, in
Kuo's opinion, by the fact that Yang Hsiu-ch'ing was posthumously honoured by
the Taipings, the day of his death being commemorated as 'the day the Tung
Wang ...
Xiucheng Li, Charles Anthony Curwen, 1977
2
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
... Heavenly Kingdom to commence.172 By rejecting the psychological mold that
had in Nivison's words conventionalized literati protest against the civil
examinations since the T'ang dynasty, Hung Hsiu-ch'uan was revolutionary in the
content ...
3
Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in ...
The most prominent of these individuals was Hung Jen-kan, a distant cousin of
the Taiping leader, Hung Hsiu-ch'uan. He became the kan wang (shield king) in
the Taiping Government at Nanking in 1859 and was executed in November
1864 ...
4
Japanese Studies of Modern China Since 1953: A ...
C(On Hung Hsiu- ch'uan's idea of legitimacy), Shukyo kenkyu 194 (1968), 204-
205. In this brief summary of a report at the 26th convention of the Japanese
Association for Religious Studies, the author points out that the logic of Hung ...
Noriko Kamachi, John King Fairbank, Chuzo Ichiko, 1975
5
Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950
Several years ago, he stated, he had been in Kwangtung as an itinerant monk,
and had made the acquaintance of Hung Hsiu-ch'uan and Feng Yiin-shan, who
had been traveling between Kwangtung and Kwangsi organizing "vagabonds"
into ...
After arduous tutoring Hung Hsiu-ch'uan did succeed in becoming an aspirant (t'
ung- sheng) in 1828, when he was sixteen, but during the next several years he
repeatedly failed the prefectural examination for the lowest gentry degree ...
In attacking Confucius, Hung Hsiu-ch'uan assailed the formal basis of Ch'ing
society. A less spectacular example of Taiping assault on the old order came in
the calendar initiated in early 1852. Old practices and superstitions were swept
aside ...
Claude Emerson Welch, 1980
8
I Believe in Heaven: Real Stories from the Bible, History ...
2 Some scholars believe this account may have influenced Dante Alighieri's
Divine Comedy because of the similarity of punishments described. The Account
of Hung Hsiu—ch'uan Another account is that of Hung Hsiu-ch'uan, a peasant ...
Cecil Murphey, Twila Belk, 2013
9
Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in ...
26. Ibid., pp. 1238-40: "Wang Tzu-an." It is interesting to note that Wang Tzu-an's
delirium readily finds an echo in the nineteenih-century rebel leader Hung Hsiu-
ch'uan (1814-64). After failing four times in the hsiu-ts'ai examinations at Canton,
...
Chun-shu Chang, Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang, 1998
10
The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1866
Bogen beskriver forløbet af Taiping-opstanden 1851-66, den første og meget farlige af en strøm af opstande mod de manchuriske overherrer og det skrantende kinesiske styre, hvilket var lige ved at vælte Ch'ing-dynastiet.
