#329 - Taiping 6: River of Souls

The History of China by Chris Stewart

May 16, 202636:59Society & Culture

The army that marches north out of Quanzhou in June 1852 is not the same one that left Jintian 18 months prior. It has left its prime architect in an unmarked grave, massacred the city that killed him, and crossed into t...

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