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ALSO B Y STEPHEN R. PLATT

Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the University of Washington Press for permission to reprint excerpts from The Taiping

Michael.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Platt, Stephen R.

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom : China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping Civil War / by Stephen R. Platt.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“This is a Borzoi book”—T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN: 978-0-307-95759-7

1. China—History—Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864. 2. China—Relations—Western countries. 3. Western countries—Relations—

China. 4. China—History—Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864—Participation, Foreign. 5. Visitors, Foreign—China—History—19th

century. 6. Europeans—China—History—19th century. 7. Americans—China—History—19th century. 8. Manchus—History—19th

century. 9. Ethnic conflict—China—History—19th century. 10. China—Ethnic relations—History—19th century. I. Title.

DS759.P57 2012

951.034—dc23 2011035137

Maps by Stephen R. Platt and David Merrill

Jacket image courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jacket design by Brian Barth

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