Jonathan Spence is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. Among his books are The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, The Death of Woman Wang, and Return to Dragon Mountain. (December 2011)
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The Ball and the World
December 8, 2011
A History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor
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Kissinger and China
June 9, 2011
On China
by Henry Kissinger
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Recharging Chinese Art
April 28, 2011
The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City
an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, September 14, 2010–January 9, 2011; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 3–May 1, 2011; and the Milwaukee Art Museum, June 11–September 12, 2011.
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition
an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 20, 2010–February 13, 2011.
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
edited by Wu Hung, with Peggy Wang
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The Question of Pearl Buck
October 14, 2010
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
by Hilary Spurling
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The Triumph of Madame Chiang
February 25, 2010
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
by Hannah Pakula
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Specters of a Chinese Master
December 3, 2009
Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)
an exhibition at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, April 9–July 12, 2009; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 6, 2009– January 10, 2010
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The Enigma of Chiang Kai-shek
October 22, 2009
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
by Jay Taylor
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The Mystery of Zhou Enlai
May 28, 2009
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary: A Biography
by Gao Wenqian, translated from the Chinese by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan
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Why Didn’t Science Rise in China?
November 6, 2008
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The Passions of Joseph Needham
August 14, 2008
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
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The Dream of Catholic China
June 28, 2007
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724
by Liam Matthew Brockey
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China’s Great Terror
September 21, 2006
Mao’s Last Revolution
by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals
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Portrait of a Monster
November 3, 2005
Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
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Chiang’s Monster
March 25, 2004
Spymaster: Dai Li andthe Chinese Secret Service
by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
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He Spelled It ‘Happily’
February 12, 2004
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The Whole World in Their Hands
October 9, 2003
The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History
by J.R. McNeill and William H. McNeill
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The Shogun’s Favorite Brit
April 10, 2003
Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Giles Milton
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Talking with Mao: An Exchange
March 18, 1999
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Kissinger & the Emperor
March 4, 1999
The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow
edited by William Burr
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Goodfellas in Shanghai
May 28, 1998
The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
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What Confucius Said
April 10, 1997
The Analects of Confucius translation and notes by Simon Leys
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The Risks of Witness
December 19, 1996
Troublemaker: One Man’s Crusade Against China’s Cruelty by Harry Wu
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It Was Yang Mo
October 19, 1995
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In China’s Gulag
August 10, 1995
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
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The Underground War for Shanghai
April 20, 1995
Policing Shanghai, 19271937
by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
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Remembrance of Ming’s Past
June 23, 1994
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
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Where the East Begins
February 3, 1994
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
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The Chinese Miracle?
September 23, 1993
China’s Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development by Vaclav Smil
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Unjust Desserts
June 24, 1993
The Story of Qiu Ju a film by Zhang Jimou
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Women’s Place
January 14, 1993
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The Other China
October 22, 1992
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
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Golden Age
December 5, 1991
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China on the Verge
July 18, 1991
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, 19111937 l’homme by Marie-Claire Bergère, translated by Janet Lloyd
The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 19191937 by We-hsin Yeh
Bandits in Republican China
by Phil Billingsley
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A Picaresque Hero
April 12, 1990
The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernão Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz
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China Witness, 1989
October 12, 1989
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China on My Mind
February 18, 1988
China Watch
by John King Fairbank
The Great Chinese Revolution: 18001985
by John King Fairbank
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Turbulent Empire
January 16, 1986
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
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Our Mission in China
September 27, 1984
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, 19111915 by James Reed
The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China
by Jane Hunter
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China: Mulberries and Famine
April 1, 1982
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
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China: How Much Dissent?
August 13, 1981
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
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Take Back Your Ming
April 30, 1981
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
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Forever Jade
April 17, 1980
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
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Why Confucius Counts
March 22, 1979
Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China’s Evolving Political Culture
by Thomas A. Metzger
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The Chinese Dream Machine
September 29, 1977
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