Volume 43, Number 4 · February 29, 1996
River of Fire
By Jonathan Mirsky
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
by Jonathan D. Spence
Norton, 400 pp., $27.50
In her introduction to a collection of Karl Marx's newspaper dispatches on China, Dona Torr conceived a charming fantasy in which Marx speculates that
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