The Search for Modern China. [The Late Ming; Manchu Conquest; Kangxi's Consolidation; Yongzheng's Authority; Chinese SOciety & the Reign of Qianlong; End of the Dynasty; New Republic; World War II; Fall of Guomingdang; People's Republic]

Spence, Jonathan D. [design, Hugh O'Neill, Antonina Krass [Andongnina]; art, Zhu Bang, Xie Shichen, Zhang Hong, Xiao Yuncong, Yuan Jiang, Wang Hui, Shitao, Yu Zhiding, Hongren, Castiglione Ren Xiong]

ISBN 10: 0393027082 / ISBN 13: 9780393027082

Published by New York : Norton, 1990., 1990

About this Item

xxv, 876 pp., [136] pp. of plates : illustrated with 200 black & white and 25 color plates, 45 maps ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0393027082 : LCCN: 89-9241 ; OCLC: 19553922 ; LC: DS754; Dewey: 951/.03 ; red cloth with gold lettering, in color pictorial dustjack et ; BOMC edition ; heavy volume text in English; FINE/FINE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Search for Modern China. [The Late Ming; Manchu Conquest; Kangxi's Consolidation; Yongzheng's Authority; Chinese SOciety & the Reign of Qianlong; End of the Dynasty; New Republic; World War II; Fall of Guomingdang; People's Republic]
• Publisher: New York : Norton, 1990.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393027082
• ISBN 13: 9780393027082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalog 61 - China

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Synopsis

Covering more than four centuries of Chinese history, this work chronicles the various dynasties, the ideas of reformist Confucian scholars, and China's poets, novelists, artists, students, and leaders

About the Author

Jonathan D. Spence (1936―2021) was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught for more than forty years. He was 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.