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The Search for Modern China

Auteur(s): Jonathan D. Spence
Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
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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 command of character and event - the product of 30 years of research and reflection in the field - Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over four centuries of Chinese history, from the waning days of the once-glorious Ming Dynasty to Deng Xiaoping’s bloody suppression of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Spence fashions the astonishing story of the effort to achieve a modern China. Through the ideas and emotions of its reformist Confucian scholars, its poets, novelists, artists, and visionary students, we see one of the world’s oldest cultures struggling to define itself as Chinese and modern.

©1990 Jonathan D. Spence (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Asie Monde

Ce que les critiques en disent

“To understand…China’s past there is no better place to start than Jonathan D. Spence’s excellent new book.” ( New York Times Book Review)
“Monumental…History that is always lively, always concrete, always comprehensible.” ( New York Times)
“Rich and dramatic…A pleasure to read, as well as being immensely informative.” ( San Francisco Chronicle)
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The narrator takes some getting used to but you can eventually just sink into the narrative. Spends most of the time in Modern or near-Modern China, with relatively little in the Ming Period.

Takes some getting used to, but great work.

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