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Article: The Taiping Vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2000
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The Taiping Vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864. By Jonathan D. Spence. (Waco, Texas: Markham Press Fund, Baylor University Press, 1998. Pp. 58. $5.95.)
Since 1977, Baylor University has sponsored a series of historical lectures that bring to that campus outstanding historians, "who could synthesize, interpret, and communicate history in such a way as to make the past relevant to the present generation" (3). Spence was the eighteenth such lecturer, and on 11-12 April 1996, he discussed his research on the Taiping Rebellion during the Qing or Manchu Dynasty in nineteenth-century China (not the eighteenth century as stated in the foreword) with greater emphasis ...