The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 (First Edition)

Spence, Jonathan D.

ISBN 10: 0670292478 / ISBN 13: 9780670292479

Published by Viking Press, New York, 1981

About this Item

New York: Viking Press, 1981. First edition. Third printing. Hardcover. Black paper-covered boards over brown cloth spine with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($19.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 465 pages. Map endpapers, with index, bibliography, and black-and-white photographs. "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" traces China s revolution from 1895 to 1980 through the lives and writings of its leading intellectuals Kang Youwei, Lu Xun, Ding Ling illuminating how literature and ideas shaped, and were shaped by, historical upheavals. Spence (1936 2021), Sterling Professor of History at Yale, was the author of over a dozen major works on Chinese history. This was his fifth book, published at a pivotal moment in his career, just before the breakout success of "The Search for Modern China" (1990), his most widely read and best-known work. He was a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, admired for blending biography and narrative to bring Chinese intellectual history vividly to life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 (First Edition)
• Publisher: Viking Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670292478
• ISBN 13: 9780670292479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • China

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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