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

Spence, Jonathan D.

ISBN 10: 0670292478 / ISBN 13: 9780670292479

Published by Viking Adult, 1981

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670292478
• ISBN 13: 9780670292479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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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

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