Jonathan D. Spence, Author . Viking $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-06357-4
Zhang Dai (1597–1689), subject of this absorbing and evocative literary-biographical study, was a Chinese essayist and historian whose long life bridged the conquest of China by the Manchus and the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644. The...
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (876p) ISBN 978-0-393-30780-1
Spence advocates democracy in China and presents contemporary views of its oppressive history, including Chiang Kai-Shek's fascist supporters and the bloodbath known as the Cultural Revolution. ``A splendid achievement, this sweeping . . . epic...
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-30994-2
Spence's intellectually adventurous essays help us understand the dynamics of China's past and the dormant promise of its future. Photos. (Apr.)
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-393-31556-1
In what PW called a ""masterful history,"" Spence recounts the mid-19th century Taiping Rebellion, in which a Chinese Christian fanatic seized Nanking and ruled his ""New Jerusalem"" for a decade. (Jan.)
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author Viking Books $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-670-89292-1
In 1728, Emperor Yongzheng of China received a message from a distant subordinate advising that treason, in the form of a letter denouncing his regime, was abroad in the land. This new book by Yale scholar Spence (The Death of Woman Wang; The Search
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-394-57190-4
To French Jesuit Jean-Francois Foucquet, John Hua Chinese widower from Canton and a convert to Catholicismseemed like the perfect choice to serve as the missionary's translator and assistant. So Foucquet took Hu back to Paris with him in 1722, but...
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $32.95 (876p) ISBN 978-0-393-02708-2
Spence ( The Question of Hu ) argues that China's modernization strategies can't work unless the people are allowed to participate in political decision-making. A splendid achievement, this sweeping 1088-page epic chronicle compresses four centuries
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-393-03355-7
Spence's intellectually adventurous essays help us understand the dynamics of China's past and the dormant promise of its future. He reviews the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 with reference to the symbolism of public spaces. He boldly interprets
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03844-6
This is the strange, compelling tale of the mid-19th century Taiping Rebellion, a political-religious upheaval led by a Chinese visionary who believed himself commissioned by Christ to wage war on the demons of the Manchu dynasty. Hong Xiuquan, a...
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author Viking Books $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-88669-2
In the latest of the concise Penguin Lives series, China historian Spence (The Gate of Heavenly Peace, etc.) blends historical facts with cultural analysis, creating a work that is fluid and informative despite its brevity. Portraying an intimate...
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (279p) ISBN 978-0-393-02747-1
Chinese historian par excellence Spence (The Search for Modern China) has taken on the formidable task of exploring how Westerners have thought about China. He starts not with Marco Polo, but with the Franciscan friar William of Rubruck, who came...
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Jonathan D. Spence, Author, Endeavor Group UK, Author, Ann Ping Chin, With Random House (NY) $92 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44980-5
Yale history professor Spence, a noted China expert, and his wife, Chin, who teaches intellectual and cultural history at Yale, have produced a stirring, spectacular political and social chronicle indispensable to understanding modern China. It...
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Sidney Gamble, Author, Jonathan D. Spence, Author, Sidney D. Gamble, Photographer Alvin Rosenbaum Projects, Incorporated $150 (191p) ISBN 978-0-87491-916-5
Gamble, late grandson of the founder of Procter & Gamble, spent three long sojourns in China during the period 1917-1932. Trained in economics at Princeton and the University of California, he undertook pioneering surveys of life both in Beijing and
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