Yang jelas film *Warlords* (Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro) berlatar belakang pemberontakan itu.. :P
Tapi rekan Ivan sudah memberi cuplikan dari buku itu latar belakangnya kok. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, indra pratama <indra_tama270...@yahoo.co.id > wrote: > > > Dear all, kalau boleh tahu pemberontakan taiping terjadi pada tahun apa? > Dan berlatar belakang kan apa? > > > > Best Regards, > > Indra Pratama > > > > *From:* budaya_tionghua@yahoogroups.com [mailto: > budaya_tiong...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ivan > *Sent:* Thursday, July 01, 2010 1:43 AM > *To:* budaya_tionghua@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [budaya_tionghua] Buku tentang Sejarah Pemberontakan Taiping > > > > > > [gambar sampul bisa dilihat di > http://sejarahastrologimetafisika.blogspot.com/2010/06/buku-tentang-pemberontakan-taiping-gods.html > ] > > Data buku > > Judul : God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan > Penerbit : W.W. Norton Company Ltd. > Tahun terbit : 1997 > Jumlah hal : 400 > Dibeli di : Periplus > > Merupakan buku yang bagus mengenai sejarah pemberontakan Taiping. Dimulai > dari sebelum hingga akhir pemberontakan tersebut. > > KUTIPAN-KUTIPAN DARI BUKU GOD'S CHINESE SON > > Hal 16 > > [Tentang Liang Afa] > > To deepen his understanding of Christian missionary work in China, Stevens > has talked as length with a Chinese Christian from Canton, Liang Afa. Born > in 1789 to a poor family, Liang received only for years of schooling before > he had to find work, first as a maker of writing brushes, and then as a > carver of the wooden blocks used in book printing > > Liang Afa ini yang kemudian menulis traktat berjudul "Good Words of > Exhorting the Age." > > Hal 17 > > Liang Afa dibaptis pada tahun 1816. Ia lalu mulai menulis traktat dalam > bahasa Mandarin "An Annotated Reader for Saving the World." Traktat ini > terdiri dari 37 halaman. Isinya membahas mengenai: > > 1.Kekuasaan Tuhan sebagai pencipta. > 2.Sepuluh Perintah Allah. > 3.Kutipan-kutipan dari Surat-surat Paulus guna menjelaskan mengenai amarah > dan kasih Tuhan. > > "Good Words of Exhorting the Age" karya lain Liang Afa baru ditulis tahun > 1832. Judulnya dalam bahasa Mandarin adalan Quanshi liangyan – and after > asking the Chinese-speaking Westeners missionaries to check it over for > theological faults, Liang printed the book in Canton the same year. > > Hal 22 > > Hong Huoxiu, the future Heavenly King, comes to Canton for the Confucian > state examinations in the early spring of 1836……. > In the years that he has been preparing for the examinations, Hong has been > surrounded by his family – his father, who has remarried after Hong's mother > death……. > Hong also has his own new bride, named Lai, whom he married after the first > young woman his parents arranged for him to marry died at an early age. > > Hal 24 > > Hong is the scholar of the family, and his relatives all wish him well, > even though there is too little income from the family farming to keep him > as a full time student. Hong teaches in the village school – where as well > as small sums in cash the payment is in food, lamp oil, salt, and to – to > earn the extra that he needs. > > Hal 25 > > Hong's ancestors migrated here from the northeastern part of Guangdong > province in the 1680s, just as the new county was being formed….. > The Hongs are Hakkas – "guest people" – as they are called in the local > dialect of Canton, or "Nyin-hak," as they call themselves in their own > dialect > > Hal 32 > > As Hong remembers it, he does not read Liang's set of tracts carefully, but > gives "a superficial glance at their contents." What exactly does Hong see? > He does not say. But there, in the table of contents, is the Chinese > character for Hong's own name. The character is sharp and clear, as the > fourth item in the fourth tract. The literal meaning of Hong's name is > "flood," and the heading says that the waters of a Hong have destroyed every > living thing upon the earth. The passage in the tract itself repeats this > startling news, and states that this destruction was ordered by Ye-huo-hua, > the god's who created all living creatures. The Chinese transliteration for > this god's name is Ye-huo-hua, the middle syllable of which – "Huo," or > "fire" – is the same as the first syllable of Hong's given name, Houxiu. So > Hong shares this god's name. There is flood, there is fire. And Hong Huoxiu, > in some fashion, for some reason, partakes of both. > > Hal 51 > > It is in 1843, in the summer, that Hong Xiuquan realizes he has the key ini > this own hand; it has been there all the time for seven years. Enmeshed as > he has been in the rhtythms of state-sponsored ceremonial, examinations, and > family, his dream has stayed fastened ini his mind in all its detail, but > still without clear explanation. A friend and distant relative named Li > Jingfang, ini whose family Hong has been teaching, drops by Hong's house, > sees an odd-looking book, and asks for the loan of it, which Hong as > casually grants. The book is Liang Afa's set of nine tracts, "Good Words of > Exhorting the Age, "brought home by Hong in 1836, and since then neither > read nor thrown away. Li Jingfang read the tracts with rapt attention. > Returning to Hong's home, he urges that he read it too. Hong does. > Traktat Liang itu sesuai dengan pemikiran Hong dalam berbagai hal, karena > isinya berpusat pada asal muasal kejahatan, dan arti kebajikan. > > > -- Narpati Wisjnu Ari Pradana Dumbest Software Engineer Phone +62 (856) 934 21318 http://gallerykunderemp.blogspot.com http://kunderemp.multiply.com
