List of Maps

Canton and the Foreign Settlement in the 1830s, page 6

Hong’s Home Ground, page 27

Hong’s First Journey, 1844, page 70

Areas of God-worshipers’ Control, Guangxi, 1846–1850, page 112

The Battle of Jintian, 1851, page 131

From Yongan to Nanjing, page 157

Nanjing, the Heavenly Capital, 1853–1864, page 187

Greatest Extent of Taiping Control, page 217

Shanghai in the 1860s, page 301

The Flight and Capture of the Loyal King, the Shield King, and the Young Monarch, 1864, page 327