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Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
by Kangxi, Jonathan D. Spence
by Kangxi, Jonathan D. Spence
I think a lot of people read/teach this book as history when, in fact, it is fiction (although, yes, I have placed on my fiction and history bookshelves). It's just historical fiction written by an historian.
If it had been written by Kangxi it would be amazing, but alas. On the otherhand, I don't think I can blame Spence for trying to bring a voice to this iconic emperor, but just keep in mind that what you're reading came out of an academic at Yale and not Kangxi himself.
If it had been written by Kangxi it would be amazing, but alas. On the otherhand, I don't think I can blame Spence for trying to bring a voice to this iconic emperor, but just keep in mind that what you're reading came out of an academic at Yale and not Kangxi himself.
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Feb 18, 2010 07:12pm
I think that actually, Spence did not write this book, and that in reality, all he did was collect all the remaining memoir writings from kang xi and string them together. As this book was assigned as an autobiography in my university course, im going to go with the notion that it is collection of Kang Xi's writings, as it will make my paper much less complicated...
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