[Peace-discuss] Hello how ah ya.

[C. G. Estabrook]

A typo (Tai-po?): actually, Spence's book is (1996).


On 5/5/10 1:04 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Have you read any of the late George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels?
>   To my mind some of the best historical fiction, learned and irreverent.
>
> Flashman and the Dragon (1985) is the eighth in the series. Flashman
> meets both the leaders of the Taiping Rebellion and members of the Qing
> Dynasty who resisted the British march to Pekin in 1860 - and
> participates in the burning of the Summer Palaces.
>
> I'm told that the best thing in English on the Taiping Rebellion is
> Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese Son (1966).
>
> On 5/5/10 12:32 AM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> I have been reading the "History of the Insurrection in China" written
>> in 1854 which is about the early years of the Tai Ping Tian Guo. It's
>> pretty interesting. Although the French romanization of the Chinese is a
>> bit strange and inconsistent, I can figure out what they mean by the
>> names and places and know some of those places.
>>
>> The Tai Ping Kingdom was successful against the degenerating Qing
>> Dynasty and took over most of south China before being crushed by the
>> British army in the 1860's.
>>
>> Sun Yat-Sen was heavily influenced by one of the surviving old Tai
>> Ping-ers.
>

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