The Search for Modern China - Hardcover

Spence, Jonathan D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091744725 ISBN 13: 9780091744724

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1990

Synopsis

Covers over 4 centuries of Chinese history, from the waning days of the once-glorious Ming Dynasty to Deng Xiao-Ping's bloody suppression of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Through the ideas and emotions of its reformist Confucian scholars, its poets, novelists, artists and its visionary students, we see a culture struggling to define itself as Chinese and modern. Through the actions of the great Qing emperors and the dominant figures of this century - Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiao-Ping - we see a state struggling to establish harmony within, and its autonomy in the world. Through the daily work of survival and their collective bursts of rebellion and revolution - 1644, 1850, 1911, 1949, 1989 - we see the Chinese people struggling to remake their lives.

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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 the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0091744725
• ISBN 13: 9780091744724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 876