Jonathan D. Spence
Birth date: August 11, 1936
Jonathan D. Spence's Books
Lost steam about halfway through. I like day to day information. Biographies are tough. Interesting history though, Zhang Dai saw a lot.
New Introduction, by Judith T. ZeitlinPreface, by Harold ActonIntroduction, by Cyril BirchPrincipal Characters--The Peach Blossom Fan
Another Judkins rec for Chinese history surveys. I know this book; it gets a lot of ups.
In Return to Dragon Mountain Jonathan Spence explores in detail the life and times of the privileged class in China just before and after the Manchu invasion in 1644 and the subsequent collapse of the Ming dynasty. And he does so using the extensive writings of a participant, one Zhang Dai, a prol...
Interesting in some points, but I find the writing style and tone to be rather dull.
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