The Search for Modern China
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The Search for Modern China
| Author | Jonathan D. Spence |
|---|---|
| Published | 1990 |
| Pages | 876 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Spence’s standard one-volume history of China from the late Ming around 1600 to the end of the twentieth century, organised around what successive generations were searching for — a workable state, a defensible territory, a way to absorb foreign technique without surrendering to foreign power. |
The Search for Modern China
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, the Himalaya Capital bibliography, in the section on Chinese Civilization, History, and Culture, as the narrative backbone under the philosophical and classical entries around it. Li Lu cites the 1991 W. W. Norton printing.
About this edition
Qing consolidation, the Opium Wars, the Taiping, the 1911 revolution, the warlords, the Republic, the Communist victory, the Great Leap, the Cultural Revolution, Deng’s reforms and Tiananmen are all narrated as episodes in one search rather than as a story of decline and rescue.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- China — the subject; Li Lu’s own formation is the history this book narrates.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.