The Search for Modern China - Document History

Informationen zum Autor Janet Chen is a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University, where she has taught courses on modern China and East Asia since 2006. Her books include Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900–1953 , a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution, and The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960 , a social history of how people learned to speak Mandarin. Pei-Kai Cheng is professor of history at City University of Hong Kong. Michael Lestz is professor of history and chairperson of the history department at Trinity College. Jonathan D. Spence (1936—2021) was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught for more than forty years. He was awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The Search for Modern China won the Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize. Zusammenfassung The most widely used primary-source reader for the modern China course, thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the new edition of Spence, The Search for Modern China.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan D Spence
• Assisted by: Janet (Princeton University) Chen (Editor), Chen Janet (Editor), Pei-kai (City University of Hong Kong) Cheng (Editor), Cheng Pei-kai (Editor), Michael (Trinity College) Lestz (Editor), Lestz Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9780393920857
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92085-7
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; China, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History