The Search for Modern China

The Search for Modern China is a history book by Jonathan D. Spence, published by Century Hutchinson and W. W. Norton & Company. The first edition was published in 1990, updated by the second edition in 1999, and the third edition in 2013 with new scholarship.

The first edition chronicles the history of China from the late Ming dynasty (circa 1600) to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Acclaimed for its "narrative techniques" and "wealth of illustrations", the book went on The New York Times's best-seller list and is widely adopted as a standard text for university-level courses on Chinese history.

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