{"product_id":"gods-chinese-son","title":"God's Chinese Son","description":"Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the \"demon-devils,\" the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257688478040,"sku":"9780393315561","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780393315561_52089b5e-e8ee-4c33-8bcb-5b8541f5057b.jpg?v=1779942659","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/gods-chinese-son","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}