The Search for Modern China

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."―Boston Globe

In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.

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• The Search for Modern China (Third Edition)
• The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection
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• God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
• Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
• The Complete FSOT Study Guide: Practice Tests and Test Preparation Guide for the Written Exam and Oral Assessment
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
• A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
• China in Ten Words