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Jonathan D. Spence (1936–2021)

Auteur de The Search for Modern China

24+ oeuvres 6,353 utilisateurs 80 critiques 15 Favoris

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Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey, England on August 11, 1936. He received a B.A. in history from Clare College, Cambridge University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. As a historian specializing in Chinese afficher plus history, he wrote several books including The Search for Modern China, The Death of Woman Wang, and The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. The Gate of Heavenly Peace won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Œuvres de Jonathan D. Spence

The Search for Modern China (1990) 1,276 exemplaires
The Death of Woman Wang (1978) 486 exemplaires
Mao Zedong: A Penguin Life (1999) 481 exemplaires
Treason by the Book (2001) 417 exemplaires
Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi (1974) — Auteur — 375 exemplaires
The Question of Hu (1988) 314 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Journey into China (1982) 539 exemplaires
Le monde chinois (1982) — Introduction, quelques éditions507 exemplaires
La forteresse assiégée (1947) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions261 exemplaires
Granta 32: History (1990) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Inside China (2007) 38 exemplaires

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Good book. I found it very interesting to read about someone who considered themself the brother of Jesus yet acted like the total opposite.
 
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CMDoherty | 8 autres critiques | Oct 3, 2023 |
Neste livro essencial para quem quer
conhecer e entender a China, Jonathan D. Spence narra quatro séculos da impressionante história de um país que se julgava o centro do mundo, foi humilhado por potências estrangeiras e atravessou o século XX em constante revolução, buscando o caminho da unidade, do progresso e da modernização.
No posfácio especial para a edição brasileira, o autor analisa os últimos desdobramentos
econômicos e sociais da China,
a possível grande potência do século XXI.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Thacio | 18 autres critiques | Jun 10, 2023 |
This book shows how China's efforts to respond to her encounter with the imperial industrial powers from the 1840s to the 1970s were an unmitigated disaster. The Qing state made efforts to modernise the economy and military, sending students abroad, recruiting Western armaments experts, building railways, and so on. But the circumstances were impossible. Rapacious predations by foreign forces and devastating internal civil wars denied China time and space to carry out the needed development. In one pathetic incident, a new Chinese fleet was entirely and ignominiously sunk by French ships within minutes. Resistance to westernisation from inside the regime, which as a foreign conquest state was anxious about its own legitimacy, made a stark contrast with the unified determination of Japan's Meiji state-led industrialisation and military reforms. Japan went on to abuse China for decades herself. In a further disastrous outcome, China was taken over by a Stalinist psychopath whose catastrophic policies turned the mid-20th century into a waking nightmare, a man who even today is held in official honour by a regime too frightened by its own failures to permit honest discussion of the past. Only after Mao's death has China combined an era of peace with competent leadership and successful state-guided industrialisation policies. But her traumatic encounter with the imperial powers between the Opium Wars and the Japanese occupation still defines her approach to the world today: a determination to overcome the "Century of Humiliation" and maximise her power to address the world on her own terms.

Some essential books on modern and contemporary China:

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… (plus d'informations)
 
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fji65hj7 | 18 autres critiques | May 14, 2023 |
Meh. Only the last chapter is about Woman Wang. Disappointing read about people living in a county in Northern China. Really crappy era for women.
 
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burritapal | 4 autres critiques | Oct 23, 2022 |

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