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The Search for Modern China (Paperback)
by Jonathan D. Spence
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An all encompassing and matchless history of modern China, this monumental masterpiece is the best place to start to understand China's past. |
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Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Pub. in: October, 2001
ISBN: 0393307808
Pages: 876
Measurements: 9 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00697
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0393307801
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The New York Times Bestseller and a true classic history of modern China. Winner of Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize. |
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This is probably the most accessible history of modern China written so far. Jonathan Spence, a Yale professor of history, has written extensively on Chinese history and his insights into the culture and people are invaluable.
Overall the reader is presented with a picture of the nature of change in Chinese civilization and how those changes are sometimes culture specific. Chinese intellectual, political and social organizations are presented. Importantly Spence shows the difficulty in incorporating Western concepts both technological and philisophical into Chinese society and the sometime rejection of these concepts for political and cultural reasons.
Spence's scholarship is second to none and this is a very readable history, both enjoyable and informative. No better praise can be given than besides a college text on Chinese history The Search for Modern China is just as well suited as an informative and entertaining read for the layperson. The integration of scholarship and writing makes this a good standard to judge other general histories.
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Readers and scholars of Chinese history, culture, and civilization and people who are interested in China and who have to do business with the Chinese firms.
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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.
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From Publisher
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
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The New York Times (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-07 00:00>
Monumental... History that is always lively, always concrete, always comprehensible. |
The Boston Globe (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-07 00:00>
A remarkable achievement... vivid... fluent, graceful... A publishing event.
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The Washington Post (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-07 00:00>
History at its best... all in the vivid, accessible style for which the author is well known.
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-07 00:00>
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 chronicle compresses four centuries of political and social change into a sharply observant narrative..." |
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