God's Chinese Son (73 page)

Feng Yunshan's imprisonment, 106-7 final days, 322, 324-25 five simple orders, 132-33 "foreign general," search for, 263-64, 265-67

founding of Taiping Heavenly King­dom, 133-34 God, description of, 221-22 "God's Chinese son" identity, realiza­tion of, 51, 55-65

God's criticism of, 219—20 God's silence, 314-15, 370n80 God-worshiping Society, formation of,
80

grain stockpiling plan, 317

hat of, 186

Hong Rengan, reunion with, 268 Hong Rengan's suggestions for Taiping

Heavenly Kingdom, 274-75 honorary titles for Taiping leaders,

142-44, 222-23, 236, 247, 268, 278 Huazhou campaign, 129-30 idolatry, attacks on, 68-69, 96-97, 99-
101

Imperial Clan, 246-47, 249-51, 268 imperial personal pronoun, adoption of, 95

initiation of new God-worshipers, 119

Jintian campaign, 130

as leader of peoples to Heavenly abode,

282-83 leg injury, 117

looting, prohibition of, 140-41 Melchizedek, identification with, 293-

95, 296-97 messages from God and Jesus through human mouthpieces, 107-8, 111, 113, 118, 123-24, 126, 219-20, 263-64, 285 military responsibilities, 218 music, enjoyment of, 251 name change, 49 Nanjing, entry into, 171 palace universe, 188, 250-54, 290-91 physical appearance, 193, 287
Pilgrim's Progress
and, 280, 282 power struggles, 147, 219-27, 233, 235- 36, 237

preaching activities, 66-72, 76-78

map of first journey, 70 Qin Rigang's murder, 244 religious service performed by, 76-77 robbery incident, 94 Roberts' visit to Taiping Heavenly

Kingdom, 285-88 Roberts' work with, 93 sexual separation policy, 150-51 six commandments, 73-75, 78, 87 swords for, 48, 67

Taiping Rebellion, beginning of, 126— 27

teaching work, 24, 79

Hong Xiuquan (
continued)
temper of, 254

Ten Commandments, views on, 128— 29, 150

Thistle Mountain, journey to, 93-95 Thistle Mountain breakout, 137-39 titles of, 49, 50, 143 traitors, search for, 137 Wei Changhui's murder, 244 Yang Xiuqing's murder and aftermath, 242, 243

Yang Xiuqing's posthumous status, 246 Hong Xiuquan, writings of:

Biblical commentaries, 291-97, 367«28 Biblical revisions, 254-61, 294 "Book of Heavenly Decrees and Procla­mations, The," 147 chants, 115 chronology of, 342«21 on dream of 1837, 97-99 edicts, 282-83 educational primer, 148-50 Elgin, message to, 265-67 "Exhortations to Worship the One

True God," 72 final book, 315

"Imperially Written Tale of a Thou­sand Words," 190-91 "Ode on the Origin of the Way and Our Salvation," 72-76, 343w21 "Ode to Youth," 151, 353n30 poetry, 50, 66, 67, 69, 76, 95, 116, 128- 29, 152-53, 234-35, 253,284, 289 Roberts, letters to, 288 tracts, 90-92, 96 Hope, Adm, 303 Hou Changbo, 349^35 household registration document,
175
Howqua, 8

Hua county, 24-25, 26

map of, 28 Huang family, 71,72,95, 101 Huang Hanjing, 120-21 Huang Shengjue, 349n35 Huang Sengjun, 78 Huazhou, 110

Taiping campaign against, 129-30

Hu family, 114 Hu Jiumei, 120 Hu Yihuang, 236, 240, 242 Huzhou siege, 323, 328, 329-30

idolatry, Hong Xiuquan's attacks on, 68-

69, 96-97, 99-101 Ikedanbu, Col, 132 Irishman, 237, 238-42, 243-44, 245 Isaac, 256, 257 Isaiah, 55, 56, 271 Islam, 176

Jacob, 178, 256-57

Jade Emperor the Highest God, 42-43
Jade Record,
38-39,
40-41,
42-46, 92 Japanese, the, 277, 309 Jen Yu-wen, xxiv Jesus Christ, xxii, 92

children of, 108, communication

through human mouthpiece, 107— 8, 111, 113, 118, 119-20, 123-25, 126, 134-36, 226, 263-64, 285 on Confucian texts, 226 on dragons, 221 on Holy Ghost, 222, 223 Hong Xiuquan's Biblical commentaries

and,291-97 Hong Xiuquan's Biblical revisions and, 255

Hong Xiuquan's dream of 1837, 48, 49, 64

initiation of new God-worshipers and, 119-20

in Liang Afa's tracts, 57-59, 61, 62-63 on Roberts, 285 Sermon on the Mount, 58-59 silence of, 146-47, 331-32 on Taiping Heavenly Army, 134-36, 263-64

on Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 134

on Taiping Rebellion, 126

Tiangui Fu named adopted son of, 246

wife of, 108 Xiao Chaogui's wounding, 145-46 Yang Xiuqing's questions about, 230— 32

Ji, Sgt, 174

Jiangkou campaign, 133 Jiang Longchang, 349^35 Jiangxi province, 216-17 Jiang Zhongyuan, 158-60, 216 Jintian, 110, 125

Taiping campaign against, 130-33 map of, 131 Judah,257-60 Ju family, 177

Keats, John, xxvii killing, prohibition of, 74

Lai (Hong Xiuquan's brother-in-law), 195, 197

Lai (Hong Xiuquan's wife), 23, 46, 50, 69,

122, 124, 125, 150 Lai (store owner), 85 Lai family, 124 Lambert, Joseph, 299-300
Lao Tzu,
xxiii Lao Zi, 42

Last Judgment, 64, 123 Legge, James, 269, 270-72, 273 Liang Afa, 21, 31 baptism of, 63 missionary work, 16—18
see also
"Good Words for Exhorting the Age" Liang family, 174 Li Desheng, 117 Li family, 141 Life-is-short,
41,
45 Li Hongzhang, 317, 328 Li Jingfang, 51, 66-67 Lin, the, 73 Lin Fengxiang, 117 Ling Shiba, 136, 137, 351«31 Liu Bang, 116

Li Xiucheng (Loyal King), 247, 248, 288 capture and execution, 326-28 defeat of Taiping forces, 312, 314, 317,

322, 323, 324, 325 eastern campaign (1860s), 278-80, 298, 302-3

grain stockpiling plan, 317 honorary title, 278

Tiangui Fu's leadership ol Taiping

Heavenly Kingdom, 326 western campaign (1863), 312 London Missionary Society, 17 Lot, 33, 178-79 Lu Liu, 99, 100, 101, 106 Luo Bingzhang, 164, 216, 316 Luo Dagang, 133, 135, 138, 155 Luo family, 141 Luo Nengan, 117-18 lust, prohibition of, 73-74 Luzhou campaign, 216

McLane, Robert, 205, 206, 207, 208-9 Manchu government, 24, 25, 54, 55, 62 "demon" charge against, 115 rituals dictated by, 28, 29, 109 Taiping criticisms of, 160-63, 181-82 Marshall, Humphrey, 204, 205 Meadows, Thomas Taylor, 194, 195, 196, 197,311

Medhurst, Walter H„ 198, 271 medical services, 9, 12

in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 186,
188

Melchizedek, 271, 293-95, 296-97

Mellersh, Capt., 229, 230, 231

Meng, goddess, 44-45

Miao tribe, 25, 71-72

militias, 87, 158-59

millenarian beliefs, xxii-xxiv, 333»4

Milne. William (father), 16, 17, 21, 63

Milne, William (son), 269

Ming dynasty, 116

Morrison, Robert, 7, 17, 20, 63

Moses, 61,92, 97, 260-61

Nanjing, xxi, 54, 170 defensive system, 188-89 desolation during Taiping occupation, 267

as Heavenly Capital, 180 map of, 187

porcelain pagoda, 206, 208, 244 Qing conquest of, 317, 322-25, 326 Taiping capture of, 171 Nellis, Patrick, 329

Nian rebellion, 211,249

Noah, 32, 92, 255-56

North China Herald,
298, 302, 308

northern campaign (1852), 154-58, 165-68

map of, 157 northern campaign (1853-55), 210-11,
212-15,
216,219, 234

Odes
about the footprints of the Lin, 73 opium trade, 4, 84, 263 Opium War (1839-42), 51-56, 61-62 orphan ghosts, 29

pacification groups, 103—5 Parker, Dr., 9, 12 Paul, St., 63, 271,294 Peking, 280

Taiping name for, 181 Penghua township, 110 Perry, Commodore Matthew, 204 Pidgin English, 8

Pilgrim's Progress
(Bunyan), 280,
281,
282

pirates, 81-84, 111

place-names, alteration of, 181-82

Plas, Franjois de, 199, 200, 203-4, 238

porcelain pagoda, 206, 208, 244

predestination, 115

Prophecies of Nefertiti, The,
xxii

prostitution, 15, 184

Protestant Theological Seminary, 270

Psalm 115, 97

Psalms 19 and 33, 67-68

Pusa, god, 38

Qiao Yancai, 182 Qing government:

bandits, campaign against, 124 British, conflicts with, 249, 262-63 captured Taiping troops, policy on, 249 "demon" charge against, 115 financial problems, 249, 362«11 foreign assistance against Taiping, 192, 194

see also
Taiping Rebellion Qin Rigang, 124, 237, 239, 240, 241 French, meeting with, 202 honorary title, 236

murder of, 244-45 power struggles, 222, 224, 236 Yang Xiuqing's murder and aftermath, 242, 243, 244 Qiu Erh, 133 Qiying, 106

Quanzhou campaign, 156, 158 Rebekah,257

refugees and homeless villagers, 303-6 religion, traditional, 28, 29-30, 34-38
jade Record,
38-39,
40-41,
42-46, 92 Liang Afa's denunciation of, 60-61, 63 Revelation Book of, xxvii, 295-97 Reynolds (ship's officer), 237, 245 Roberts, Issachar, 62, 92-93, 266, 267, 269 Hong Xiuquan and Hong Rengan,

work with, 93 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, visit to,

205, 285-88, 298, 366»9 writings on Hong Xiuquan, 193 Russians, the, 277

Sakyamuni, god, 44

Scandinavians, the, 277

Second Chief Moon, 283-84

Sermon on the Mount, 58-59

sexual separation policy, 120—22, 150—51,

184-85,220, 225, 234 Shanghai, 54, 192-93, 234 arms market, 310-12 crime in, 310

foreign community, 199-200, 299-300,

302, 309-12 map of, 301

refugee problem, 305-6 Taiping campaign against, 278-80,

298-300, 302-3 trade boom, 308-9
Shannon
(ship), 262 She Baoshun, 53, 54 Shi Dakai (Wing King), 114, 224, 237, 244-45 British, meeting with, 196 Changsha campaign, 165 defection of, 247-48 hat of, 186

honorary titles, 143, 247 surrender to Qing forces, 316 Thistle Mountain breakout, 138 western campaign (1850s), 216, 218 Xiao Chaogui's wounding, 146 Shi family, 113, 114 Shi Yang, 82

Shrine of the Six Caverns, 76 Shun, sage ruler, 74 Sigu village, 71-72, 76-78, 95, 110 Sillar, J. C„ 302

six commandments, 73—75, 78, 87 "Sixteen Instructions" on virtuous behav­ior, 28

Snow-in-the-clouds (sword), 48 Staveley, Brig. Gen., 303, 305, 311 stealing, prohibition of, 74-75 Stevens, Edwin, 14-15, 16, 18-20, 21, 22,

30-31,32, 88 Stribling, Cornelius, 309 suicide, traditional beliefs about, 43 Suzhou city, 278, 286,317

Taiping Heavenly Army, xxi, 116—18 arms for, 127,310-12 bandits in, 129, 132, 133 battlefield guidelines for troops, 166-68 battle technique, 239 behavior of troops in camp and on

march, rules for, 147-48 conflicts among leadership, 128 disciplinary actions, 134-36 expansion of, 163 five simple orders, 132—33 Jesus' pronouncements on, 134—36, 263-64

looting, prohibition of, 140-41 merit system, 142 naval forces, 155-56, 158, 165-67 organization of, 127-28 personnel record-keeping, 174 pontoon bridges, use of, 165 traitors, search for, 137, 144-45, 152,