God's Chinese Son (67 page)
67.
As in
DSCN,
July 7, 1862, where the gentleman concerned owns "five Colt revolvers" as well as a bloodhound.
6&.NCH,
Oct. 27, 1860.
69.
BPP / IUP 469, Admiral Hope to Admiralty, Oct. 1862, Inclosure 1 in no. 74.
70.
DSCN,
May 30, 1862.
71.
NCH,
June 28, 1862; Curwen,
Deposition,
161-62.
72.
BPP / IUP, 442-43.
73.
DSCN,
Sept. 26, 1862, for butter;
NCH,
Feb. 1, 1862. This latter is a sardonic piece, dated to "1962" and signed "C'est moi."
74.
Belgian, BPP/IUP, 458; Swedish,
NCH,
June 15, 1861; Prussian,
NCH,
June 16, 1864; Italian,
BPP
/IUP, 489.
75.
Curwen,
Deposition,
118, 135, 136; Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
458;BPP/IUP, 101, 247, 259, 383, for the howitzer.
76.
Curwen,
Deposition,
138-39.
77.
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
452—60; Smith,
Mercenaries,
passim; Curwen,
Deposition,
238-42 nn. 15-23. The most recent study of Ward is Carr,
Devil Soldier.
78.
Curwen,
Deposition,
139-40, changing romanization.
79.
Lin-le, 77
-ping,
2:623-24.
80.
See
Tianxiong shengzhi,
2:49b, and
Tianfu shengzhi,
34a. Hong's work on these two texts seems to fit well with the fine exposition in Wagner,
Heavenly Vision,
110, that after 1853 "the vision did not provide any further guidance," and consequently there was a "foreshortening" of the "scenario." For Hong Rengan on the same texts, see Xia,
Zongjiao,
180-81. The unique surviving copy of the
Tianxiong
and
Tianfu shengzhi,
now in the British Library, is undated. In the list of Taiping publications printed in vol. 1, the character
qian,
"former," in the title of the revised New Testament,
Qianyizhao shengshu,
has clearly been inserted to replace the earlier
xin,
"new." Thus the book was probably prepared
before
and circulated
after
the revised New Testament. Xia,
Zongjiao,
142, 148, concludes from this that the book was printed
after
the 29th Taiping book, Hong's elder brothers' account of their younger brother's revelations, which still has the
xin
in the title of the New Testament, and before the Taiping calendar for 1861, where
qian
appears in the contents as a regular-sized character. This is shrewd. But it remains unclear why the
Tianxiong shengzhi,
if published later, was not numbered as no. 30, and why it is in a style of print quite different from that of the other Taiping volumes, both the vol. 29 and the 1861 calendar. Since R. J. Forrest did not obtain this text in 1861 or 1862 when he got all the others, including the revised Old and New Testaments, it apparently was not in general circulation at that time.
Chapter 22: Partings
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
318-19. For Shi's immense trail of campaigns see ibid., 304-17, and Guo Yisheng,
Ditu,
115-20.
Curwen,
Deposition,
136; ibid., 87, suggests Li still did not know of Shi's fate in 1864. On the growth of Li Hongzhang's power see Spector,
Li Hung-chang,
and Cheng,
Taiping Rebellion,
chap. 6.
Curwen,
Deposition,
122, 146.
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
524, says the stored grain totaled over 50,000 piculs—a picul being approximately 130 pounds.
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
525.
Curwen,
Deposition,
140.
Ibid., 141; Xia,
Zongjiao,
273, gives the religious contexts of this confrontation.
Curwen,
Deposition,
147-48.
TR,
1513.
Prosper Giquel cites deserters' testimony to place Hong in Huzhou in May 1864, though he was probably there some months earlier; Hong Rengan in his confession is vague on the dates; see Giquel
, Journal,
80, 87;
TR,
1513-14.
Curwen,
Deposition,
289 n. 83; Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
526.
Curwen,
Deposition,
145; Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
527.
Gordon report in Curwen,
Deposition,
298 n. 42.
Ibid., on the scavengers; ibid., 151, 294-95 nn. 24-26, on the fugitives.
Cited in Curwen,
Deposition,
298 n. 42.
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
525. See the testimony of David Williams, alias Thomas Sayers, Charlie, Charles,
NCH,
Oct. 3, 1863.
Curwen,
Deposition,
295 n. 27; quotation from ibid., 299 n. 42.
Ibid., 297 n. 41.
Ibid., 291;
Jiuyizhao shengshu,
Exodus, in
Yinshu,
26b.
Curwen,
Deposition,
145-46;
TR,
1474-75, with variant of Hong's wording.
Li in Curwen,
Deposition,
153; Hong Rengan in
TR,
1513; Tiangui in
TR,
1531.
Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
2:1072; Jen,
Revolutionaiy Movement,
528.
See the annotated prayer for the dead in
TR,
118, as contrasted with
Tiantiao shu,
in
Yinshu,
8. Zeng Guofan reported to the emperor that Hong's body, wrapped in yellow satin "embroidered with dragons," was discovered and exhumed on July 30. The corpse was then beheaded and burned. Zeng added that the head was hairless, but with a gray mustache. See Lay,
Autobiography,
82, 95. On the burial of Hong see also Xia,
Zongjiao,
299-302.
TR,
1531.
Curwen,
Deposition,
153.
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
530-31;
TR,
1531, Young Monarch's confession; Cur- wen,
Deposition,
154, 299-300 nn. 45 and 46, citing Zhao Liewen's diary on details of the capture.
Curwen,
Deposition,
157—58.
Ibid, 161-62.
Ibid, 182; also ibid, 305 n. 84. Curwen's appendixes 1 and 2 also have further conversations by Li with his captors, including Zhao Liewen. Appendix 3 contains a comprehensive analysis of the variant editions of Li's confession.
Curwen,
Deposition,
155; Guo Yisheng,
Ditu,
143, for exact route and dates.
See Giquel
, Journal,
72, 75, on the former Gui Wang, Deng Guangming. Ibid, 101, mentions the Young Monarch's presence in the area in Aug. On the origins of the Ever- Triumphant Army see Leibo,
Transferring Technology,
26-31, 36-38.
Giquel,
Journal,
32, 78, on bodies; ibid, 35, 36, on commanders and officers killed.
"Account given by Patrick Nellis,"
NCH,
Nov. 12, 1864. See also "the Statement of Mark Conroy" in the same issue.
Richard Smith,
Mercenaries,
131-32, 155-56.
NCH,
May 21, 1864. Such blindfold wheelbarrow races, using real barrows over long courses, were common in England from the 1830s; other variants of wheelbarrow races are discussed in the eccentric and charming volume
Causeries brouettiques,
212—20; ibid, 236-40, discusses Chinese wheelbarrows.
.36. Giquel,
Journal,
77, 83, 88-89. For an overview of the Huzhou campaign, see Leibo,
Transfening Technology,
51—60.
37.
Giquel,
Journal,
88-89.
38.
Ibid, 77, 84, 98.
39.
Ibid, 99, 102.
