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The World of a Tiny Insect

A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath

By Zhang Daye. Translated by Xiaofei Tian

"From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ."

So begins Zhang Daye’s preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war...