Download or read book Gods Chinese Son written by Jonathan D Spence and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of the largest uprising in human history--the Taiping rebellion (1845-64)--in which 20 million Chinese were left dead, God's Chinese Son tells "a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time; a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity" (Washington Post Book World). Photos. Author lectures & tour.