The Search for Modern China (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Search for Modern China Jonathan D. Spence is George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and author of eight acclaimed books on China. Here he has written a very readable history of this fascinating country. "To understand . . . China's past there is no better place to start than Jonathan D. Spences excellent new book".--The New York Times Book Review front page review. 136 pages of photographs.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 17 October 2001
- Format: Paperback 922 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780393307801 ISBN 10: 0393307808
- Sales rank: 108,275
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Full description for The Search for Modern China
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.

