The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393920852 ISBN 13: 9780393920857

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

The most widely used primary-source reader for the modern China course, thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the new edition of Spence, 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 political history―critical proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts. Many of the documents are translated into English for the first time and available only in this book.

Informative headnotes accompany the selections, providing context and helping students with unfamiliar names, places, and events. This collection is the perfect source for a firsthand look at modern Chinese history.  

About this title

About the Author:

Janet Chen is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University.

Pei-Kai Cheng is professor of history at City University of Hong Kong.

Michael Lestz is professor of history and chairperson of the history department at Trinity College.

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.

Review:

Monumental.... History that is always lively, always concrete, always comprehensible. History at its best...all in the vivid, accessible style for which the author is well known.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393920852
• ISBN 13: 9780393920857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Chen Janet, Cheng Pei-kai, Lestz Michael