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The Search for Modern China
  4.14 avg rating — 526 ratings
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1990
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10 editions
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God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
by Jonathan D. Spence, David Lindroth   3.86 avg rating — 249 ratings
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1996
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
3.80 avg rating — 210 ratings
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1984
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The Death of Woman Wang
3.40 avg rating — 223 ratings
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1978
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Mao Zedong: A Life
3.38 avg rating — 219 ratings
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1999
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11 editions
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
3.86 avg rating — 112 ratings
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published
1981
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5 editions
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The Question of Hu
3.40 avg rating — 119 ratings
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published
1988
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6 editions
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Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
by Jonathan D. Spence, Kangxi 3.70 avg rating — 98 ratings
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1974
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4 editions
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Treason by the Book
3.52 avg rating — 95 ratings
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7 editions
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Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
3.60 avg rating — 60 ratings
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2007
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“If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.”
― Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
― Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
“The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.”
― Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
― Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.”
― Jonathan D. Spence, Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
― Jonathan D. Spence, Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
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