太平天國

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(1) Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Battle for China's Soul. Wall Street Journal, Feb 11, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 00832807101506.html
(book review on Stephen Platt, Autumn in the Hevenly Kingdom; China, the West, and the epic story of the Taiping civil war. Knopf, 2012)

Note: Chen Yucheng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yucheng
(c 1834-1862; 陳玉成; 英王)

(2) Stephen R Platt, Is China Ripe for a Revolution?  Lessons for Beijing frpm the deadliest civil war in human history. New York Times, Feb 12, 2012 (in Sunday’s section: This Week in Review).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/1 ... r-a-revolution.html