"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe
New York Times
Monumental.... History that is always lively, always concrete, always comprehensible.
About the Author, Jonathan D. Spence
Jonathan D. Spence is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he has taught for thirty years. He has been 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.
