Jonathan D. Spence
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Jonathan Spence, author of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, teaches the history of modern China at Yale. His book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man will be published this autumn. (June 2007)
From the Review
June 28, 2007: The Dream of Catholic China
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey
September 21, 2006: China's Great Terror
Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals
November 3, 2005: Portrait of a Monster
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
March 25, 2004: Chiang's Monster
Spymaster: Dai Li andthe Chinese Secret Service by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
February 12, 2004: He Spelled It 'Happily' (letter)
October 9, 2003: The Whole World in Their Hands
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History by J.R. McNeill and William H. McNeill
April 10, 2003: The Shogun's Favorite Brit
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton
March 18, 1999: Talking with Mao: An Exchange
March 4, 1999: Kissinger & the Emperor
The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow edited by William Burr
May 28, 1998: Goodfellas in Shanghai
The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
April 10, 1997: What Confucius Said
The Analects of Confucius translation and notes by Simon Leys
December 19, 1996: The Risks of Witness
Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty by Harry Wu
October 19, 1995: It Was Yang Mo (letter)
August 10, 1995: In China's Gulag
Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons by Pu Ning
Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag by Harry Wu, by Carolyn Wakeman
Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ma Bo, translated by Howard Goldblatt
Grass Soup by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery
April 20, 1995: The Underground War for Shanghai
Policing Shanghai, 1927–1937 by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
June 23, 1994: Remembrance of Ming's Past
The Plum in the Golden Vase: or, Chin P'ing Mei Vol. I, The Gathering by an unknown author, translated by David Tod Roy
Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works by John Knoblock
February 3, 1994: Where the East Begins
Asia in the Making of Europe, Vol. III: A Century of Advance Book 1: Trade, Missions, Literature; Book 2: South Asia; Book 3: South-east Asia; Book 4: East Asia by Donald F. Lach, by Edwin J. Van Kley
September 23, 1993: The Chinese Miracle?
China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development by Vaclav Smil
June 24, 1993: Unjust Desserts
The Story of Qiu Ju a film by Zhang Jimou
January 14, 1993: Women's Place (letter)
October 22, 1992: The Other China
A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947 by Lai Tse-han, by Ramon H. Myers, by Wei Wou
A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories by Bo Yang, translated by Robert Reynolds
The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China by Hung-mao Tien
Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization by Robert Wade
The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church by Murray A. Rubinstein
Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle edited by Denis Fred Simon, edited by Michael Y.M. Kau
December 5, 1991: Golden Age (letter)
July 18, 1991: China on the Verge
To the People: James Yen and Village China by Charles W. Hayford
Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s by David Strand
The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911–1937 l'homme by Marie-Claire Bergère, translated by Janet Lloyd
The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919–1937 by We-hsin Yeh
Bandits in Republican China by Phil Billingsley
April 12, 1990: A Picaresque Hero
The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernão Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz
October 12, 1989: China Witness, 1989 (letter)
February 18, 1988: China on My Mind
China Watch by John King Fairbank
The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800–1985 by John King Fairbank
January 16, 1986: Turbulent Empire
The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China by Madeleine Zelin
The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. C. Huang
From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China Harvard University Press by Benjamin A. Elman
September 27, 1984: Our Mission in China
The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 by Michael H. Hunt
The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911–1915 by James Reed
The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China by Jane Hunter
April 1, 1982: China: Mulberries and Famine
China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937 University Press by Lillian M. Li
Bureaucratie et famine en Chine au 18e siècle by Pierre-Etienne Will
China by Keith Buchanan, by Charles P. FitzGerald, by Colin A. Ronan, with a foreward by Joseph Needham
A History of Chinese Civilization by Jacques Gernet, translated by J.R. Foster
Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
August 13, 1981: China: How Much Dissent?
A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent by Laurence A. Schneider
Dissent in Early Modern China: Ju-lin Wai-Shih and Ch'ing Social Criticism by Paul S. Ropp
China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent by Merle Goldman
Beijing Street Voices: The Poetry and Politics of China's Democracy Movement by David S.G. Goodman
April 30, 1981: Take Back Your Ming
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang
Li Zhi, philosophe maudit (1527-1602) Volume I by Jean-François Billeter
The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ding) by Tang Xianzu, translated by Cyril Birch
The Chinese Vernacular Story by Patrick Hanan
April 17, 1980: Forever Jade
Fortress Besieged by Ch'ien Chung-shu, translated by Jeanne Kelly, by Nathan K. Mao
The Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River by Hsiao Hung, translated by Howard Goldblatt, by Ellen Yeung
Literature of the People's Republic of China edited by Kai-yu Hsü
The Dragon's Village by Chen Yuan-tsung
Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970 edited by Joseph S.M. Lau, edited by Timothy A. Ross
March 22, 1979: Why Confucius Counts
Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture by Thomas A. Metzger
September 29, 1977: The Chinese Dream Machine
China and the Search for Happiness: Recurring Themes in Four Thousand Years of Chinese Cultural History by Wolfgang Bauer, translated by Michael Shaw
Chinese Socialism to 1907 by Martin Bernal
Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys
Books by Jonathan D. Spence
Mao Zedong (1999)
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998)
The Taiping Vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864 (1998)
The Chinese Century: The Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years (1996)
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (1996)
Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture (1992)
The Search for Modern China (1990)
The Question of Hu (1988)
Tsao Yin and the Kang-Hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master (1988)
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984)
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 (1981)
To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 (1980)
The Death of Woman Wang (1978)
The China Helpers: Western Advisers in China, 1620-196 (1969)