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#339 - Taiping 16: At Sixes & Sevens

The History of China by Chris Stewart

Jul 27, 202647:27Society & Culture

The Taiping's greatest summer curdles into its bloodiest autumn. Two months after the East King demands to be crowned Hong Xiuquan's equal, three of his brother-kings converge on Nanjing with an army he never sees coming...

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