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Now in its sixth edition, this book has been updated to examine the return of Hong Kong in 1997 and the upcoming return of Macao in 1999. Hsu discusses the end of the last vestiges of foreign imperialism in China, as well as China's emergence as a regional and global superpower. U.S.-China rivalry and the prospect of unification between China and Taiwan are also considered...more
Published December 9th 1999 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1970)
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Jan 05, 2010Mkp rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Fascinating account of the Opium War and the mid-19th century political turmoil. Another interesting segment concerns the late 19th Century Reform movement. The Wade-Giles encoding of Chinese names is a drawback, and I find all the apostrophes in the names difficult to work with. On the positive side, though, the index is quite complete and valuable (although there are some omissions that I have noticed).
However Hsu's view of Mao (which amounts almost to hagiography) starkly contrasts with the w...more
This is a huge book. I read the Chinese version, and it still took me more than 3 weeks to finish. If I read this English version I would have to spend 3 months or more...
I was once proud of my country, China. But I'm growingly not sure. What kind of country allows its people to suffer from dictators and suppression, for thousands of years? Ummm, a psychopath one?
I honestly regret not finishing this before I took my IB exams back in 2014. The amount of detail, supported by clear context and reasoned argument has proved highly interesting and doubtlessly would have earned me more than a few brownie points in my scripts.
Nov 03, 2017Marios Antoniou rated it it was amazing
One of the most influential books on modern China. Easily understandable, engaging and balanced!
A fantastic introduction to the history of modern China, detailing the cultural, economic, and political impact of western influence on Chinese society since the Qing Dynasty. The book documents China's journey from being a conservative monarchy into today's superpower. Certain historical events were brutal and often hard to read (i.e. the Opium War, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Massacre), but these events shed some light on the cultural mentality of China and how it became the way it...more
Jun 19, 2018Randall Harrison rated it really liked it
Read this book for an undergraduate class at the University of Oklahoma in the Spring of 1982. One of two course I took from Professor Sidney Brown.
Dec 05, 2015Mao rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This book covers from 1600 to 1990s. I like that it strikes to present a balanced and objective views of major events and changes in the history. I like to read about the details of history events and the reason and causes(including economics and culture) of them, which I didn't know when I learned history.
Hsu's dense work is not what I would call fun reading, but he is very thorough. The subject matter is fascinating and he deals with it maturely. His treatment of China is authoritative, and if you want a starting point for further sinological studies, this is a good one.
Significant article about modern Chineses history in English. Fairbank's book is about pre-modern China and his book is about modern. If you want to know whole the history about China, history and the future, Hsu and Fairbank's books are mostly recommended.
Sep 03, 2012Dave rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Comprehensive history of China from the fall of the Ming Dynasty through the People's Republic of China's acceptance as a member of the United Nations in the 1970's. Well written and thoroughly documented; extensive footnotes.
The decisive overview of the past 200 years of Chinese history. Unlike Jonathan Spence's Search for Modern China, Hsu excellent gears his text towards students in clearly understandable sections linked to political, social and economic factors.
Although focusing on political and social history more than 'The Search for Modern China', it's much more detailed and comprehensive than other accounts.
中国近代史——徐中约
相对客观的讲述了中国近代发生的事情
Oct 08, 2010Kleon Chan is currently reading it
For the moment I think that this book has a very good balanced views, the writer tries to not be biased and takes us into a very good history of modern china starting from 1600-2000
Sep 01, 2009pinenutsandrice rated it it was ok · review of another edition
The bane of junior-college history students, circa 1990s.
Was excellent at the time. Now there are better sources available.
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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.
Published 1991 by W. W. Norton Company (first published April 1990)
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Sep 11, 2010Hadrian rated it it was amazing
Only a book about China could define the modern era in the 17th century. A grand sweeping history, covering all facets of China. History, economics, politics, military events, society, the arts - a good encyclopedic overview, in a very readable style.
Unfortunately, my edition seems to end at the events of Tiananmen Square. A lot has happened since then, and I would have loved for the author to expound on the present China as lucidly as he did for the ages past.
It is also amusing to note that Den...more
Mr. Spence gets an A+ for this term paper. Given my critical state of mind, my instinct is to find blatant fault, somehow, someway with this work; unfortunately, I found none. This book is an important reminder of the many complexities in Chinese history, a reminder of the error lurking in the pursuit of reductionist thought, for China is a poster child for complexity.
I couldn't help but wonder, as I read along, just how little information I would retain in long-term memory; there's so much to f...more
May 15, 2007Tom rated it really liked it
Probably the best, and certainly the most popular, history of China in the modern era (i.e., post 1500 CE). Spence's prose is straightforward and clean, and his method of following individual artists, writers, or activists through a given time period to illustrate general policy acts as an engine to drive the reader through long descriptions of economic policies and trade issues. Furthermore, Spence always aims to show how the past informs the present and how patterns of history overlap and repe...more
Nov 18, 2012Sudhang Shankar rated it it was amazing
The ascent of contemporary China in some thirty years has fascinated and bewildered many, especially as the nation belies all western/modern ideas of the enlightenment, such as Individual Freedom, Representative Democracy. Onlookers from more liberal nations struggle to make sense of this rise that challenges the basic foundations of liberal democracies. From that perspective, Spence's book (which stops shortly after Tiananmen Square Massacre) offers some explanation behind the Sinic love for or...more
Dec 07, 2015Josh Friedlander rated it really liked it
Sonder is the term for the realisation that every person around you has an inner life as deep and meaningful as your own, and the explosion of complexity implied thereby. Sometimes you just realise how little you know; how absurdly deep the water goes past your shallow part of the pool. Reading a book about China is kind of the same: to realise that all of the historical and cultural knowledge you've ever accumulated mostly ignores this area (Greater China or the Sinosphere, so as not to tread o...more
Timeline
1122 - 1234 Manchu Jurchens take northern China “Jin dynasty”
1368 Ming Dynasty established
1550 Portugese establish presence in Macao.
1559 Nurhaci born
1570 Pirate attacks stopped in southern coast, Spain enters Manila
1572 to 1620 Emperor Wanli of Ming Dynasty
1590s Nurhacu leads tribesmen in Liaodong, eunuchs ascendent, Japan invades Korea
1601 Silk weavers strike in Suzhou, porcelin workers strike in Jiangxi
1604 Dongli Society founded, opposed corrupt eunuchs. Infamous eunuch Wei Zhongxian...more
Jun 17, 2010Rebecca Radnor rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This is a REALLY well written book. First time I read it was for a course on the history of Modern China at my alma mater, Northwestern University. I think I took the course in 2010(??). And by modern they mean, post 1500 in the common era, i.e., ONLY in China is the 'Modern' era dated back to after the Fall of Constantinople. I wish more history books were this well written.
That said, I'm currently 'refreshing' my knowledge: i.e., am listening to the audio file via my iphone, while getting stuf...more
May 31, 2011Bruce rated it really liked it · review of another edition
In this monumental and detailed history of China from 1600-1990, Spence traces the many strands that have influenced the changes and development of this complex nation. He discusses China’s internal conditions, its sociological and philosophical foundations and trends, and its often paranoid and contradictory relationships with the world around it. Personalities come alive, including those figures who played pivotal roles in the often confusing political history, and Spence also highlights figur...more
Mar 02, 2017Pie Resting-Place rated it liked it · review of another edition
It is very long, very detailed and ends just before modern China gets really interesting after 1989.
Jul 19, 2018Adrian rated it it was amazing
It is tempting when writing a review of an epic piece of work to declare it the best within its genre, however, I will go as far as to say that this is the best comprehensive history of Modern China I have yet read, and I do not say so lightly.
While this accolade was previously given to Jonathan Fenby’s very respectable work, I nonetheless feel that Jonathan D Spence has composed a very broad-ranging and ambitious work that covers a very broad time span, starting with the fall of the Ming and c...more
Aug 08, 2019Shane Hill rated it really liked it · review of another edition
A decent read that is very dense and detailed that is a little dry at times but overall it gives a nice record of the last 350 years of Chinese history! From the collapse of the Ming Dynasty morphing into the Qing Dynasty...the major events are all included here....the Opium War with England...The Taiping Rebellion....The Boxer Rebellion....The Revolution of Sun Yet San....the era of War lordism....the War against Japan and ensuing Civil war between the Nationalists and Communists...the tragic t...more
May 01, 2011Steve rated it it was amazing
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I was first assigned this book for my Modern China history class at Tufts University. It has taken me twenty years to read the whole thing. As far as I know, this book remains the definitive account of Chinese history from the Qing (pronounced 'Ching') to the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989. As such I plan to supplement Spence with a modern work that carries on from Tiananmen. Spence wrote when China was only just emerging as an economic power, although he identified the key political, social, econom...more
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I have read a few books of Chinese history over the last 18 months and in general and had come to slightly understand Mao's rise to power. Anything from five years before that or earlier, totally lost. I have stood at the graves of previous rulers and had someone explain how this one related to that one buried over there and it still didn't help.
This book got me a couple hundred more years. I still have no idea what happened BEFORE the 17th century, but from the 17th century on, I think I've got...more
Jul 22, 2007M rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This has been my first real introduction to Chinese history, read while I live my first month in Beijing. As such, I'm not really qualified to recommend it over other histories of China. I do like it a great deal though, and I suspect that it would hold up against similar books.
A history of China from the collapse of the Ming to around 2000. It is very well footnoted, index'd, and appendix'd, includes key statistics rendered as tables, many useful maps, and wonderful selections of visuals (draw...more
Dec 16, 2009Felicity rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: reread, history, undergrad, east-asia, nonfiction
This was the text for a History of Modern China course I took in undergrad. From that you can infer that it's very detailed and scholarly. However, it's also intensely readable: I've reread it for pleasure in the years since graduation.
The 'Modern' China of the title is in the strict sense of Modern, in this case starting in the 17th century. That may seem a long time ago, but the context it gives to more contemporary events is rich and useful. I found the patterns and trends that emerged from...more
I would say I read some 90% of this book. It is not generally my style to claim I have fully read a book when I have not, but given the effort I put into this, I'll give myself a break. I found it to be average as history books go. Mostly enjoyable to read, though not as enjoyable as some. Certainly feel more knowledgeable about China in retrospect. I give it three out of five stars, though, because I probably wouldn't have finished it had I not been urged to due to my class.
Jan 16, 2017Scott rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Very readable and comprehensive history of China from the 17th century to present day (first decade of the 21st century, for the 3rd edition of the book). I can see why this is the go-to book for universities to introduce this subject. It's difficult to wrap the mind around the scale and pace at which events unfold across China, but the author highlights significant events and presents a compelling case for the patterns and themes that have defined Chinese society in its recent history.
Oct 04, 2015AskHistorians added it
It's a pretty good overview that starts with the Ming and goes through the late 1980s. Covers all the bases. Nothing is covered in exceptional depth (with a subject like China it rarely can be in a single book) but for a general idea of recent Chinese history it's more than adequate. Also, a very readable book.
Oct 13, 2012Betty Ho rated it really liked it
No an easy read (in fact quite textbooky) but definitely a rewarding one. This book covers the history of China from the end of Ming Dynasty to 1989 Tiananmen Incident through the perspectives of politics, economics and culture. Supported by numerous research and was written without any bias, this perhaps is one of the most trusted sources of Modern China history.
Immense and impressive, the likes of it will never be seen in this land again!
This book shows how China's efforts to respond to her encounter with the imperial industrial powers from the 1840s to the 1970s were an unmitigated disaster. The Qing state made efforts to modernise the economy and military, sending students abroad, recruiting Western armaments experts, building railways, and so on. But the circumstances were impossible. Rapacious predations by foreign forces and devastating internal civil wars denied China time and space to carry out the needed development. In...more
A broad and elegant history of China from 1600 to 1990. This is a deserved classic. Though covering vast periods, the author weaves together common themes of the difficulty of ruling this vast country, and the difficulties faced by the ruled. The harassment and harm of external powers, and the inestimable damage done internally by their own leaders and ideological movements. A country of such capacity and power, which has been so often weak and divided. Along with the continuity of culture, lite...more
Jan 25, 2019Tom rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This book covers an immense amount of history in only 728 pages of non-appendix text. As such, I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of detail I had been hoping for on a few topics, but instead I got a very valuable broad brush of the context that all the pieces of Chinese history fit into.
Some of my own main takeaways are:
1) an appreciation for how hard it is to govern a civilization / state like China;
2) combined with the previous bullet point, an understanding of *why* modern China is author...more
An essential starting point for my launch into Chinese fiction (in translation). An unexpected bonus is that Spence covers cultural developments, including literature and visual arts, for each period--- thus adding great titles for my survey of Chinese literature. I hope they can be found in print or digitally.
A big plus of Spence's work for me is that ploughing through lengthy passages dealing with battles and internecine power shifts is rewarded with rich descriptions of everyday life in city...more
Jan 16, 2017Micah rated it liked it
There's a lot going on in this book. It's really well researched. Lots of information and it's presented pretty well. The thing that bothers me about the whole book is how it feels a bit like it's written for people who don't believe China is a real place? There's this constant . . .not exploration, but maybe exploitation? of things people would do hundreds of years ago that feels very different from the way we talk about European history. It's difficult to explain in a short review, but it's so...more
It was ok. I wasn't terribly impressed. This is a trusted course reference on Chinese history. Instead of an abstraction of themes and dates, this book makes sure to pick out certain key figures of each time period, then set down the details of their lives as well as place the events of the time from their context or understanding, providing an immersive experience. There is sufficient info on the arts and literature of the periods discussed. In the end I just wasn't very interested in Chinese h...more
Spence has complete mastery of his subject, an excellent analytic acumen to supplement his slightly-sere-but-still-pleasing prose style, and an impressive ability to distill a wide disparity of political, social, cultural and military events and unfoldings into coherent, encapsulatory narratives, from both the structural heights of the collective and the foundational base of the individual. A magnificent achievement.
May 30, 2017Joshua Marney rated it really liked it
A good overview of modern Chinese history from the end of the Ming until the 1990s. Readable and about as comprehensive as possible given the length of time and amount of topics covered. Nonetheless, there some gripes to be had with the book, including a characterization of the warlord era and Nationalist era that is somewhat of the mark, and thus Frank Dikotters 'Age of Openness'is an essential supplement to this book.
May 24, 2019Ariel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The book starts off at the end of the Ming dynasty, which is alot earlier than I expected a book on modern China to begin. I loved the book though because Spence adds so much detail, and for me it helped a lot in understanding the context of certain decisions and events, how something like the Cultural Revolution and dominance of Communism happened.
Feb 03, 2019John Ward rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
First history book that I read for my class at CCNY, and it informed on a number of subjects and illustrates where further research of your own is needed. The writing flows and the narrative is well thought out.
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Jonathan D. Spence is a historian specializing in Chinese history. His self-selected Chinese name is Shǐ Jǐngqiān (simplified Chinese: 史景迁; traditional Chinese: 史景遷), which roughly translates to 'A historian who admires Sima Qian.'
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