Jonathan D. Spence is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a distinguished body of work on the history of modern China. Among his most recent books are God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan and The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds.
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The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth. With his comman... SEE MORE