Covering more than four centuries of Chinese history, this work chronicles the various dynasties, the ideas of reformist Confucian scholars, and China's poets, novelists, artists, students, and leaders
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Jonathan D. Spence is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he has taught for thirty years. He has been awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The Search for Modern China won the Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize.
To understand . . . China's past there is no better place to start than Jonathan D. Spences excellent new book. -- The New York Times Book Review, front page review
[A] miracle of readability and scholarly authority. -- Jonathan Mirsky
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