Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

Katherine Paterson

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$12.95

ISBN: 0888998856
Format: Paperback

Pub Date: 09/01/2008
Publisher: Groundwood Books

Shipping Weight: 0.73lbs

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Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom is an engrossing fictional account of a young peasant boy caught up in the Taiping Rebellion, which rocked China from 1850-1864. Rescued from kidnappers, Wang Lee finds himself with a strange secret group. They are the God-worshipping society, Mei Lin tells him, dedicated to overthrowing the hated Manchu emperor of China. Wang Lee must join the rebels and learn to be a soldier -- and to kill.

Singing and marching, the crusaders fight the "foreign devils" in villages and cities, on mountains and rivers. For Wang Lee it is a time of agonizing questions that neither his companion, Chu, nor his philosopher friend, Shen, can answer. For Mei Lin, her teacher San-niang, and hundreds of other women with unbound feet, it is a time to show their strength. And for all the charcoal bearers, farmers, miners and misfits transformed into a noble army, it is a time to establish a new age the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace.

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