God's Chinese Son

by Jonathan Spence

  Ulantai, Gen., 145

  United States, see Americans, the

  Wang Qingcheng, xxv 355nl7 Wang Zuoxin, 101, 102, 103, 113, 133 Ward, Frederick, 303, 312, 328 "Way of Great Peace," xxiii "Way of the Celestial Masters," xxiii Wei Changhui (North King), 125, 237, 348«30 British, meeting with, 196 French visit to Taiping, 203 hat of, 186 honorary title, 143 medical services of Taiping, 188 military responsibilities, 218 murder of, 244-45 power struggles, 223—24, 236 Thistle Mountain breakout, 139

  Xiao Chaogui's wounding, 146 Yang Xiuqing's murder and aftermath, 242, 243, 244 Wei family, 106, 114 western campaign (1850), 216, 218, 219, 234

  western campaign (1863), 312 wheelbarrow races, 329, 372^35 "White Lotus Teachings," xxiv witchcraft, prohibition of, 75 Wolseley, Garnet, 304 Wright, Mary, xxiv Wuchang campaigns, 168-69, 216 Wuhu township, 218, 229 Wylie, Alexander, 267, 269

  Xiangeng, Emperor, 160, 164, 182, 202,

  249, 263 Xiang Rong, 133, 237 Xiang township, 110 Xiao Chaogui (West King): Changsha campaign, 163 death of, 163-64, 354»28 as Hong Xiuquan's relation, 121 honorary title, 143 illness of, 123

  as Jesus' mouthpiece, 107-8, 111, 113, 118, 119-20, 123-25, 134, 226, 263, 285

  Jintian campaign, 130, 132 power struggles, 128, 147 recruiting new Taiping members, 160- 63

  sons of, 246

  Taiping Rebellion, rationale for, 144 Thistle Mountain breakout, 138 wounding of, 145-47, 156 wrestling with heavenly figures, 108—9 Xingan city, 156 Xu, 85-86

  Yang Xiuqing (East King), 111, 172 American visit to Taiping Heavenly

  Kingdom, 206 Biblical falsehoods, message on, 233 British visits to Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 197-98, 229-32

  Yang Xiuqing (continued) bureaucracy of Taiping, 185 capital punishment policy, 228, 236 Confucian texts, rehabilitation of, 225- 27

  dragon symbolism, 220, 221 as God's mouthpiece, 107, 135, 219-20, 223, 225-26, 233, 235, 236, 241-42 hat of, 186

  health problems, 123, 186, 235 "Holy Ghost" designation, 222-23,

  228-29, 230 Hong Xiuquan's Biblical commentaries

  and, 291-92 honorary titles, 143, 222-23 Irishman's audiences with, 240 Jintian campaign, 130, 132 medical services of Taiping, 186, 188 military responsibilities, 218, 236-37 murder of, 242 personal qualities, 240 posthumous status, 246 power struggles, 128, 147, 219-27, 233,

  235-36, 237 recruiting new Taiping members, 160— 63

  sexual separation policy, 184, 220 Taiping Rebellion, rationale for, 144

  traitors, search for, 152 Xiao Chaogui's wounding, 146 Yang-yun-kiau, 349n28 Yang Zhen, 74-75

  Yan Luo (Underworld King), King, 38,

  39, 42,48,64,91, 108, 254 Ye-huo-hua (Jehovah), see God Yen Hui, 73-74

  Yongan, Taiping occupation of, 139, 140—

  41, 145, 152-53 Yow-a-he, 83 Yulin campaign, 136-37 Yung Wing, 270

  Zeng family, 80, 96, 99

  Zeng Guofan, 216, 218, 227-28, 273, 280,

  317, 371«23 Zeng Guoquan, 280, 302, 314, 323, 326 Zhang Bingyuan, 228 Zhang family, 78, 79 Zhang Yong, 130 Zhang Yongxiu, 80 Zhenjiang campaign, 218, 236, 239 Zhili province, 181-82 Zhouli ("Rites of Zhou"), 127-28 Zhou Xineng, 352nl3 Zhu Yuanzhang, 116 Zoroaster (Zarathustra), xxii

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  [1] Respectively named for the constellations Ursa Major and the Big Dipper, both wor­shiped as the God of Literature.

  [2] In Chinese mythology, Pan Gu was the embryonic being who first brought order to the universe, and from whom the human race sprang.

  [3] The effect of this small excision is strong: the brothers' action in covering their father is still convincingly explained, but what the Taiping readers and Noah's sons see in Chinese, in verse 22, is the stark word "nakedness," luoti; whereas the Chinese phrase lushen, skill­fully used to translate the true significance of "he was uncovered" by Gutzlaff in verse 21, which has the same force as the English phrase "exposed himself," is gone forever.