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  <name><![CDATA[Jonathan D. Spence]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Jonathan D. Spence is a historian specializing in Chinese history. His self-selected Chinese name is Shǐ Jǐngqiān (simplified Chinese: 史景迁; traditional Chinese: 史景遷), which roughly translates to &quot;A historian who admires Sima Qian.&quot;

He has been Sterling Professor of History at Yale University since 1993. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>08/11/1936</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Death of Woman Wang, The]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Question of Hu]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Treason by the Book]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds]]></title>
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