Jonathan D Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 446215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan D Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE J D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From The Death of Woman Wang (1978)
Chapter 7. But What Was It Really Like? The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang's early life was marked by the expansive sense of progress that permeated Ming culture: the flourishing of reformist schools of Buddhism; wide-scale philanthropy; the education of wome…
The Cambridge History of China
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between e…
Treason by the Book
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture
spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to his magisterial history, Search for Modern China, Spence has made the excite…
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology
Science in ChinaScience and Civilisation in China. Joseph Needham , Wang Ling , Kenneth Robinson , Lu Gwei-Djen , Ho Ping-Yu , Nathan Sivin
The Gate of Heavenly Peace. The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
Suicide and the Family in Pre-modern Chinese Society
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
A milestone in Western studies of China. (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining literary materials with more conventional sources of p…
From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s was of crucial importance in the late history of China. But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644, it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transition. The nine essays in this book will contribute significantly toward understanding the complexity of change and continuity over the span o…
The Death of Woman Wang
From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
K'ang-hsi and the Consolidation of Ch'ing Rule 1661-1684
The Death of Woman Wang
From Ming to Ch'ing. Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
The Peach Blossom Fan
A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature, a vast dramatic composition that combines the range and depth of a great novel with the swift intensity of film. In the mid-1640s, famine sweeps through China. The Ming dynasty, almost 300 years old, lurches to a bloody end. Peking falls to the Manchus, the emperor hangs himself, an…
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-Hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master
In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bond-servant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendant wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, China's most famous novel, becomes the focal point of a fascinating study that shed important light on the social and political life of the early Manchu period
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
A milestone in Western studies of China. (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining literary materials with more conventional sources of p…
Science in ChinaScience and Civilisation in China. Joseph Needham , Wang Ling , Kenneth Robinson , Lu Gwei-Djen , Ho Ping-Yu , Nathan Sivin
Treason by the Book
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-Hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master
In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bond-servant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendant wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, China's most famous novel, becomes the focal point of a fascinating study that shed important light on the social and political life of the early Manchu period
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor, Bondservant and Master
The Peach Blossom Fan
A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature, a vast dramatic composition that combines the range and depth of a great novel with the swift intensity of film. In the mid-1640s, famine sweeps through China. The Ming dynasty, almost 300 years old, lurches to a bloody end. Peking falls to the Manchus, the emperor hangs himself, an…
The Death of Woman Wang
From Ming to Ch'ing. Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s was of crucial importance in the late history of China. But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644, it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transition. The nine essays in this book will contribute significantly toward understanding the complexity of change and continuity over the span o…
The Death of Woman Wang
From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
K'ang-hsi and the Consolidation of Ch'ing Rule 1661-1684
Suicide and the Family in Pre-modern Chinese Society
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
A milestone in Western studies of China. (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining literary materials with more conventional sources of p…
The Gate of Heavenly Peace. The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980
Science in ChinaScience and Civilisation in China. Joseph Needham , Wang Ling , Kenneth Robinson , Lu Gwei-Djen , Ho Ping-Yu , Nathan Sivin
Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture
spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to his magisterial history, Search for Modern China, Spence has made the excite…
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
Treason by the Book
The Cambridge History of China
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between e…
Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang's early life was marked by the expansive sense of progress that permeated Ming culture: the flourishing of reformist schools of Buddhism; wide-scale philanthropy; the education of wome…
Chapter 7. But What Was It Really Like? The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values
From The Death of Woman Wang (1978)
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