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  • Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture

    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 in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through...
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  • Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi

    Author: Jonathan D. SpenceISBN-10: 067972074XISBN-13: 9780679720744Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/1988Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.26w x 0.84d
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  • From Ming to Chi'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    From Ming to Chi'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China

    The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s was of crucial importance in the late history of China. But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644, it...
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  • God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

    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 narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At...
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  • Mao Zedong: A Life by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    Mao Zedong: A Life

    "Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb." (Chicago Tribune) From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country...
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  • Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    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 seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and...
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  • The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

    China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in...
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  • The Death of Woman Wang by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    The Death of Woman Wang

    "Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl." (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern...
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  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980

    "A milestone in Western studies of China." (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants--the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and...
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  • The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

    From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary's remarkable sojourn to Ming China In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought...
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  • The Question of Hu by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    The Question of Hu

    This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary...
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  • The Search for Modern China by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    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 beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early 17th century. Strong on social and...
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  • The Search for Modern China by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    The Search for Modern China

    The Search for Modern China originated in a legendary course at Yale taught by the late Jonathan Spence and has been the best-selling text for students and teachers of modern Chinese history ever since. Janet Chen (Princeton University), a leading scholar and expert in...
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  • To Change China: Western Advisers in China by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    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 "to change China" "To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers,...
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  • Treason by the Book by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    Treason by the Book

    "A savory, fascinating story of absolute rule, one that not only reveals a great deal about China's turbulent past but also suggests where some of the more durable reflexes of China's current leaders have their roots. . . . A detective yarn and a...
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  • Tsao Yin and the Kang-Hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master, Second Edition by Spence, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Spence

    Ts`ao Yin and the K`ang-Hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master, Second Edition

    In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bondservant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendent wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, China's most famous novel,...
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