Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War Audiobook

Quotes

• “Narrator Angela Lin keeps the story moving with her vocal clarity and excellent pacing, and she’s adept at pronouncing the Chinese names.”

  — AudioFile

• “The ambitious scale and lively writing make Platt’s book an excellent entree into a pivotal event in world history.”

  — Choice magazine

• “A refreshing and gripping account that illuminates how civil conflicts can suck in outsiders and why the West has had great difficulties in trying to maintain a façade of neutrality and protect its commercial interests at the same time…Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom…is powerful, dramatic, and unforgettable.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “A compelling and often meticulous account…Platt is at his best when dissecting the often absurd dynamics of Western intervention.”

  — Daily Beast

• “Splendid…An upheaval that led to the deaths of twenty million, dwarfing the simultaneously fought American Civil War, deserves to be better known, and Platt accomplishes this with a superb history of a nineteenth-century China faced with internal disorder and predatory Western intrusions.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Platt presents the perplexing Taiping Rebellion that convulsed China’s Qing dynasty from 1851 to 1864…Incorporating his perceptive characterizations and a comprehensible account of Zeng’s ultimately victorious military campaigns, Platt has skillfully converted his erudition into an eminently general-interest treatment of what may have been the most lethal civil war in world history.”

  — Booklist (starred review)