...Yuan-Chung Teng Abstract Historians of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (or the Taiping Rebellion) have so far discovered forty-two books officially published by that regime. About thirty more titles are verified, but the books have not been found. Students working with archives and other sources...

...John S. Gregory Abstract Practically all accounts of British intervention in support of the Manchu rulers of China against the Taiping rebellion present it as a calculated and deliberate change of policy by the British government which followed more or less immediately upon the ratification...

...Hellmut Wilhelm Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion 1850–1864 . By J. C. Cheng . New York : Oxford University Press , 1963 . xii, 182 . $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 505 due to the intensity of his aesthetic responses...

...George E. Taylor Tsêng Kuo-fan and the Taiping Rebellion with a Short Sketch of His Later Career . By William James Hail . New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corp. , 1964 ( 2 d ed.). $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 688 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Yuan Chung Teng Abstract Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts was, as far as is known, the only Western teacher ever to instruct Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Aware of his special relationship with Hung, Roberts was for many years enthusiastic about Hung's undertakings...

...David Pong Abstract The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), the biggest rebellion Imperial China had ever experienced, had undoubtedly exposed the many inadequacies of the dynastic government. The decrepit state of the army was at once revealed. The Manchu banner troops had long decayed while...

... t i\ ft « * LEON HURVITZ University of Washington The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents (Volume I: History). BY FRANZ MICHAEL, IN COLLABORATION WITH CHUNG- LI CHANG. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1966. xii, 244 pp. Maps, Appendices, Index. $7.50. For more than ten...

...P. M. Yap Abstract The evolution of China into a modern nation-state has seen few episodes more meaningful than the Taiping Rebellion occurring in the latter half of the last century. In the leader of this rebellion, Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, there is much that is of special interest to the sociologist...

...K. S. Latourette Christian Influence upon the Ideology of the Taiping Rebellion 1851–1864 . By Eugene Powers Boardman . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1952 . xi , 188 p. Bibliographical Appendix and Index. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953...

...Eugene Boardman The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers . By S. Y. Teng . New York : Oxford University press , 1971 . 413 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 395 The Taiping Rebellion and the Western any...

...Susan Naquin Taiping Rebel: The Deposition of Li Hsiu-ch'eng . Edited By C. A. Curwen . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1977 . vii, 357 pp. Maps, Notes, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $24.95 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 332...

...Rudolf G. Wagner Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen . By Robert P. Weller . Seattle : University of Washington Press ; London: Macmillan, 1994 . viii, 255 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995...

...Yuji Muramatsu The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents . By Franz Michael . In collaboration with Chung-li Chang. Volume II : Documents and Comments. Volume III: Documents and Comments. Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1971 . $30.00 each volume. Copyright ©...

...S. Y. Teng The Taiping Ideology: Its Source, Interpretations and Influences . By Vincent Y. C. Shih . Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press , 1967 . 553 pp. Bibliography and Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 874 JOURNAL...

...Robert N. Weiss Western Reports on the Taiping: A Selection of Documents . Edited by Prescott Clarke and J.S. Gregory . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1982 . xxx, 454 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $25. (cloth), $15.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Kathryn Bernhardt Reenacting the Heavenly Vision: The Role of Religion in the Taiping Rebellion . By Rudolf G. Wagner . Berkeley : University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies , 1982 . (China Research Monograph 25.) vii, 134 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography. N.p...

...Eugene P. Boardman Abstract During the years 1851 to 1864 a central feature of the Chinese political scene was the Taiping rebellion. This was a peasant movement led by disappointed candidates in the official examinations and unlettered men of native military and organizational genius who...

...Vincent Yu-chung Shih Abstract Various interpretations have been offered to explain the nature of Taiping society. The earliest ones were given by those who witnessed the progress of the movement and who either took part in suppressing and ultimately destroying it or suffered as victims of its...

... neglected is his controversy with Humphrey Marshall over the diplomatic policy to be pursued by the United States regarding the Taiping rebellion. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 2 MSS. China instructions, 1:76–78, letter no. 1, Daniel Webster to Humphrey Marshall...

...Laai Yi-Faai New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion . By Ssu-yu Teng . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1950 . ii, 131 p. $.75. Mimeographed. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 BOOK REVIEWS 385 novel A Ying's Wan-Ch'ing hsiao-shuo shih...