Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 - Hardcover

Spence, Jonathan D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670292478 ISBN 13: 9780670292479

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1981

Synopsis

Chronicles the history of the Chinese Revolution, focusing on the people and events of modern Chinese history, the writings of modern Chinese authors, the issues facing the People's Republic, and more

About this title

Review:

Praise for The Gate of Heavenly Peace

"Absolutely first rate; it is adventurous in form, scrupulous in content, passionate in its revelation of complex human drama."
--Saturday Review

"[Jonathan Spence] has woven a magical symphony that tells us as no conventional history could of the agony of a nation in awesome labor."
--Harrison E. Salisbury, Chicago Tribune Book World

"With a novelist's flair for life and a historian's grounding in fact . . . there is no other work to match this in sweep, vivacity, and humanity."
--Library Journal

About the Author:

Jonathan Spence's eleven books on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0670292478
• ISBN 13: 9780670292479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1