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The search for modern China

By Spence, Jonathan D.
New York W. W. Norton & Company 1999 .
xxxi, 728, [A131] p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm , Includes bibliographical references and index 9780393973518

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The search for modern China : a documentary collection

New York W. W. Norton & Company 1999 .
xx, 531 p. ; 24 cm , Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-531) 9780393973723

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To change China : western advisers in China, 1620-1960

By Spence, Jonathan D.
London Penguin Books 1980 .
xvi, 335 p. : ill. ; 20 cm , Includes bibliographical references and index 9780140055283

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Emperor of China: self-portrait of K'Ang-Hsi

New york Vintage Books 1988 .
xxv, 226p, 20cm 9780679720744

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God's Chinese son : the Taiping heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

By Spence, Jonathan D.
New York W. W. Norton & Company 1996 .
xxvii, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm , Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-388) and index 9780002555845

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The Death of Woman Wang

By Spence, Jonathan D..
Quercus Books 2008 .
169 pages , In The Death of Woman Wang the award-winning historian Jonathan Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure time and place: provincial China in the late 17th century. Drawing on a range of sources, including local Chinese histories, the memoirs of scholars and other contemporary writings, Spence reconstructs an extraordinary tale of rural tragedy in a remote corner of the northeastern Chinese province of Shantung. Life in the county of T'an-ch'eng emerges as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. The Death of Woman Wang not only magnificently evokes the China of the late Ming period, but also deepens our understanding of the China we know today. 9781847243423

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