Tsêng Kuo-Fan and the Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career

New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1964. Second edition. Octavo in red cloth; 422 pp: maps; 23 cm. Ex-libris. Good(+); near imperceptible scratching to boards; slight sunning to spine; ex-library with standard library markings; faint toning to textblock, else pages clean. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780818800368, 0818800364

Contents: Introduction. Chinese government under the Manchus: A. Military, B. Civil. Organization of the god-worshippers. The suppressed leader. From Kwangsi to the North. The religion of the Taipings. The military, political, and social arrangements of the insurgents: A. The Taiping Army, B. Political adn social institutions. The emergence of Tsêng Kuo-fan and organisation of a new force. The first campaigns of the Hunan recruits. Taiping dissensions and imperial disappointments. The advance to Anhui. The capture of Anking and reorganisation of the war. Foreigners and the rebelllion. The struggle for Nanking and collapse of the rebellion. The Nanking viceroyalty; The Nien rebels. The Chihli viceroyalty and Tsêng's last days. Tsêng's philosophy of life. By way of summary. | "Originally published 1927 by Yale University Press. Reprinted 1964 by special arrangement with Yale Historical Publication."--Title page