《太平天国起义记》英文_近代中国史料丛刊

INTRODUCTION.THe general interest which prevails in respect to the present movement in China, may serve as an apology for the following publication.It is not the intention of the writer to make a compilation of statements which have been already presented to the public, nor does he pretend to give,
INTRODUCTION.nentioned, that the individual from whom the facts have been derived,when making his statement to the writer, knew very little of any infornation received from Nanking.so that the whole was drawn merely from his memory and his actual experience.
THE VISIONS OF HUNG-SIU-TSHUEN, AND ORIGIN OF THE KWANG-SI INSURRECTION.GENEALOGYOFTHEHUNGFAMILY.THE Hung family trace the pedigree of their ancestors back to the time of the Sung dynasty, and the reign of the two Emperors Hwui-tsung and Kin-tsung, about the beginning of the twelfth northern bar 