There is so much to learn about China and these books are a good start

If I asked you, what was the bloodiest civil war in history, what would you answer?

The American Civil War comes immediately to mind but it isn’t even close.

As many as 750,000 Americans died between 1861 and 1865 in the conflict between northern and southern states.

But a decade earlier, a civil war in China left between 20 and 30 million people dead.

The Taiping Rebellion ranks among the worst conflicts in human history.

Yet why is it that we remember Abraham Lincoln or Robert E Lee or Ulysses S Grant and not Hong Xiuquan?

His is a fascinating story, a Chinese peasant who believed he was the blood brother of…