The Search for Modern China (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan D. Spence
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1600-1989
- Setting: China
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Tradition, Communism or communists, Politics, Social issues, Economics, Nationalism, China or Chinese people, Modernization
- Locales: China
The Search for Modern China encompasses nearly four centuries of China’s unique, complex development politically, economically, culturally and socially. During these years, torques and tensions among its peoples have variously—as much of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) evinced—brought it temporarily to levels of achievement exceeding, or at least matching, those characterizing Europe, indeed any other extensive culture. And this was despite—sometimes because of—an almost unbroken sequence of authoritarian traditions and regimes.
Just as persistently, however,...
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