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Article: God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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Jonathan D. Spence. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. xxvii + 400 pp. $27.50.
Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864) was a peculiar revolutionary mystic in modern Chinese history. After failing the Confucian state examination in Canton in 1837, he fell critically ill. In a debilitated state, on the verge of death, he had a dream, in which he received a divine call to save the suffering people. Seven years later in 1843, Hong Xiuquan decoded his early dream vision with the Bible and declared himself the younger brother of Jesus, the second son of God. His mission was to rid this world of monsters and evils and lead people to the promised land on earth as well as to the paradise in ...
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