The Search For Modern China

The Search For Modern China

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Jonathan D. Spence
Jonathan D. Spence
1990 • 912 pages

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appropriately sweeping take of 400 years of madness, captures much of the scarring that drives china's bellicose underdog posture even as one of the world's most powerful nations

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