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The Search for Modern China
This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence’s highly successful introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the …
The Search for Modern China
The new edition of this outstanding documents collection displays a stronger blend of social history—pieces reflecting everyday life, family, social networks, and culture—and …
Mao Zedong: A Life
A renowned expert on Chinese history turns his considerable talent and experience to the life of China's greatest modern leader--the enigmatic, mythologized, often maligned, and …
God's Chinese Son
Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the …
To Change China: Western Advisers in China
From "the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today" (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted …
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
"Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence." (The New Republic) Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life …
Foot Soldiers for Democracy
Drawn from the rich archives of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this collection brings together twenty-nine oral histories from people of varying ages and occupations who …
China in 2008
The Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive …
Chinese Roundabout
The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired …