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20.
 
Gregory,
Great Britain,
34.

21.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
82, quoting Mr. Williams, June 30, 1853.

22.
 
Gregory,
Great Britain,
35; Wakeman,
Strangers,
147.

23.
 
Bowring to Clarendon, Jan. 25, 1855, cited in Gregory,
Great Britain,
215 n. 12.

24.
 
Mercier,
Cassini,
225, 284.

25.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
181, 186.

26.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
182.

27.
 
Overland Friend,
#1; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
181.

28.
 
Overland Friend,
#1; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
182.

29.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
183, 185, 198.

30.
 
Ibid, 184-85.

31.
 
Ibid, 186-87.

32.
 
Overland Friend,
#2; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
187.

33.
 
Overland Friend,
#3; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
196.

34.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
187-88, 199.

35.
 
Ibid, 195, 199.

36.
 
Ibid, 196;
Overland Friend,
#3.

37.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
193.

38.
 
Tianfu shengzhi,
34, dated 6/7/9.

39.
 
Overland Friend,
#2; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
188.

40.
       
len,
Revolutionary Movement,
294-95; Curwen,
Deposition,
86, 196-98. I follow Jen Yuwen and Li Xiucheng in placing Qin at the scene, rather than the version in Guo Tingyi; see Curwen,
Deposition,
89, 209 n. 19.

41.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
189.

42.
 
Overland Friend,
#2; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
190-91.

43.
       
Overland Friend,
#2 and #3, records that 500 of Yang's former palace women were beheaded, and gives a dramatic but unlikely figure of 40,000 for the total of Yang's follow­ers killed; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
190-92, 196.

44.
       
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
299-300; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
191; Curwen,
Deposition,
86-87, 198.

45.
 
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
193, describes his departure from the Yangzi force.

46.
 
Overland Friend,
#2; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
195.

47.
 
Overland Friend,
#3; Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
195.

Chapter 17: Family Circles

    
TR,
931 n. 1.

     
TR,
989-91; Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
158 n. 52.

    
Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
755, and appendix, 20;
TR,
931.

     
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
301-2; Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
appendix, 20 and 22.

    
Clarke and Gregory,
Reports,
194.

    
Curwen,
Deposition,
87, 91;
TR,
1401, follows the
NCH
version of 1865.

     
TR,
697, modified following Xiang,
Ziliao,
2:694.

    
Curwen,
Deposition,
92.

     
Kuhn,
Rebellion,
pt. 4; Wright,
Last Stand,
73-77.

     
Qingdai dangan,
1:2, 7, 10, 14, 20, 29.

     
Ibid., 57-58, Xianfeng 7/3/23 and 7/8/5; ibid., 62-63, 8/6/24, shows that in 1858 the annual Manchu winter hunts were canceled as a further economy measure.

     
As argued by Li Xiucheng, cited in Curwen,
Deposition,
92.

     
Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
appendix, 19 and 23;
TR,
981-82.

     
Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
352-53; Guo Tingyi,
Shishi,
appendix, 23, 24, 38, for the "guozong" and the 1856 and 1857 dates. The "guozong" category also contained rela­tives of the other kings.

     
BPP/IUP,  153; also cited in
TR,
985.

     
See his confession, in
TR,
1530. Other contemporaries suggested a total of 148 con­sorts or more—see
TR,
585, and Zhang Dejian,
Zeqing,
310. All of these consorts were entitled to the honorable term of
niangniang,
or Senior Queen, and were not divided into a hierarchy of concubines by rank, as in the imperial model prevalent in Peking. See Jen,
Revolutionary Movement,
138.

     
Confession, in
TR,
1531.

     
TR,
898-900,
Youzhu zhaoshu;
memorization,
TR,
1531.

     
Tianfu shi,
in
Yinshu,
vol. 14, dated 1857,
TR,
585-666, cited by stanza numbers, which are identical in the English and the Chinese versions.

     
Stanzas 139, 157, 358.

     
Stanzas 134-37, 243-45.

     
Stanzas 218, 304, 151,230.

     
Stanzas 148, 394, 470, 212; 189 for organ
Jengqin.

     
Stanzas 170, 260,416.

     
Trash, stanza 129; leprosy, 446, 490; spittoons, 152, 154, 296; insects, 158, 159, 241; fans, 177, 263.

     
Stanzas 192,303.

     
Stanzas 179-80, 188, 297, 224, 281.

     
Body, stanza, 283; face, 485, 200, 393; feet, 174; navel, 485.

     
Stanzas 216, 197, 237.

     
Stanzas 267, 337, 338,310.

     
Stanzas 46, 107, 153, 281.

     
Stanzas 284, 393, 286, 410-11, 9, 282.

     
Stanza 412.

     
Stanzas 217, 247, 414, 415, 422, 423, 426.

     
TR,
1531, Young Monarch's confession.

     
Stanzas 265, 427.

     
Stanzas 275, 30.

     
Stanzas 392, 364, 390, 375.

     
Tianfu shi,
in
Yinshu,
28, stanza 313. A different rendering is in
TR,
636.

     
Stanzas 55, 312. The same message seems implicit in stanzas 187 and 354.

     
Stanzas 378, 389.

     
Stanzas 164, 264.

     
Stanzas 264, 328.

     
Mistakes, stanza 327; good cheer, 212, 343, 362; beating, 17, 18, 111, 189; death, 340; women bathed, 429, 432.

     
Stanza 21.

       
The British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, Blackfriars Road, Lon­don, contains two versions of the early Taiping Bible: the slightly modified Gutzlaff ver­sion,
Jiuyizhao shengshu
(comprising Genesis 1-28, call number 15116.b.9), and the only known surviving copy of
Qinding Jiuyizhao shengshu
(Genesis through Joshua) containing Hong's full range of revisions (call number 15117.e.20) For brevity, these will be cited here as Bibles A and B. A virtually complete listing of all variants is given by Wu Liangzuo and Luo Wenqi in their invaluable essay "Taiping Tianguo yinshu jiaokan ji," 267-73.

        
Tianfu shi,
stanza 448;
TR,
657.

       
Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 267.

        
Ibid., 268; a similar insertion is made in Genesis 18:16 and 22, and 48:16.

       
As Hong does in Genesis 38:12 and 43:29.

       
Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 274.

       
See Bibles A and B, 1:11b; Wu and Luo, "Yinshu," 267.

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