num_pages: 912
description: "A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."―Boston Globe 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.
language: English
title: The Search For Modern China
titlecomplete: The Search For Modern China
characters: Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong
genres: China, Historical, History, Asia, World History, 20th Century, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Academic, Politics
ratings_count: 2896
places: China
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Lionel Gelber Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company