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'Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom' by Stephen R. Platt: Review

In the mid-19th century a civil war ripped China apart, destroying an empire and plunging the country into lawlessness and chaos.

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The Taiping Civil War is a Chinese Rorschach test. The Communist Party has long taken the uprising as an honored utopian precursor, while reformers dwelled on the missed opportunity to modernize a declining empire.

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