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  • The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary’s remarkable sojourn to Ming ChinaIn 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace

    The Chinese and Their Revolution

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “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 ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $10.99 USD

  • Mao Zedong

    A Life

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn and insightful account brings to life this modern-day ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • God's Chinese Son

    The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    "A magnificent tapestry…a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity." —Washington Post Book WorldWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Return to Dragon Mountain

    Memories of a Late Ming Man

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Question of Hu

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France--a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Chan's Great Continent

    China in Western Minds

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    "Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewChina has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi

    Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fortress Besieged

    by Qian Zhongshu ...
    Translated by Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao ...
    Series series New Directions Classic
    The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era.Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Fortress Besieged

    by Qian Zhongshu, John Gall ...
    Translated by Jeanne Kelly, Nathan K. Mao ...
    The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature and a masterpiece of parodic fictionSet on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of its hapless hero Fang Hung-chien. After aimlessly studying in Europe at his family’s expense, Fang returns to Shanghai armed with a bogus degree from a fake ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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  • Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

    How Human Values Evolve

    by Ian Morris, Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human valuesMost people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Search for Modern China

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 49 min

    The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth.With his command of character and event––the product of thirty years of research and reflection in the field––Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over ... Read more

    $29.95 USD