[Peace-discuss] Hello how ah ya.

[John W.]

Ecc 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books *there is* no end; and much study *is* a weariness of the flesh.

Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and
keep his commandments: for this *is* the whole  *duty* of man.

Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether *it be* good, or whether *it be* evil.


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:04 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>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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