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  • av Jonathan D. (Yale University) Spence
    1 021

    The leading textbook by the leading scholar.

  • av Jonathan D. Spence
    271

    This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France--a journey that ended with Hu''s confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical detective work and a gripping narrative, The Question of Hu deftly probes the collision of tw ocultures, with their different definitions of faith, madness, and moral obligation.

  • - The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
    av Jonathan D. Spence
    311

    "A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World

  • - Bondservant and Master, Second edition
    av Jonathan D. Spence
    621

  • - Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
    av Jonathan D. Spence
    711

  • - Essays in History and Culture
    av Jonathan D. Spence
    397

    "If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvelous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea, or sky are of any avail." -a Beijing cook, nineteenth century from Chinese Roundabout

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