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Books by Xu Zheshen
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The Three Great Men of the Late Qing Dynasty (Two-Volume Set) 晚清三杰（全二册）
In the late Qing, as Western powers rose to prominence, the imperial court in China was in decline and its bureaucracy corrupt. Foreign powers encroached from without, while peasant uprisings erupted within. The Taiping army, in particular, swept through the land like wildfire, leaving the Qing Empire on the brink of collapse. Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Peng Yulin were scholars by traditional standards, yet they were determined to save the crumbling empire and turn back the tide. They founde
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The Story of Zeng Guofan 曾国藩演义
The Romance of Zeng Guofan follows the tumultuous life of the famed late Qing minister Zeng Guofan, offering a sweeping account of the epic struggle between the Taiping Rebellion and the Qing court. Author Xu Zhesheng uses historical sources as its framework and literature as its soul, vividly portraying Zeng Guofan’s legendary journey from an impoverished scholar to a celebrated minister of the restoration. He founded the Xiang Army and turned the tide, and championed the Self-Strengthening Mov
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