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This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battlesa riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when