Ozymandias’s Reviews > Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War > Status Update

“And when we congratulate ourselves on seeing through the darkened window that separates us from another civili-zation, heartened to discover the familiar forms that lie hidden among the shadows on the other side, sometimes we do so without ever realizing that we are only gazing at our own reflection.”

Grim