Round 18: Tossup 10

A member of this family left his translation work with James Legge (“leg”) to take up a position in which he outlined modernizing reforms in the treatise A Work For the Aid of Government. Stephen R. Platt’s history of a state’s “autumn” emphasizes the prescience (10[1])of that minister from this family, (-5[1])who tried to court international sympathy through the missionary Issachar Roberts. The Xiāng Army (10[1])organized against a member of (10[1])this family, who appointed (-5[1])his cousin “Shield King” (10[2])and Lǐ Xiùchéng (“sh’yoh-chung”) “Loyal King” before dying while (10[1]-5[1])under (10[1])siege by the scholar-general (10[1])Zēng Guófān. (10[1])A man (10[1])from this Hakka family had (10[1])feverish (10[3])visions of his “father” (10[1])punishing Confucius, inspiring him to seize Nánjīng and declare it (-5[1])his “Heavenly (10[1])Capital.” (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, a purported brother of Jesus from what family launched the Taiping Rebellion and adopted the name Xiùquán ■END■ (10[4]0[4])

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