Jonathan D. Spence AKA Jonathan Dermot Spence Born: 11-Aug-1936 Birthplace: Surrey, England
Gender: Male Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Search for Modern China Military service: British Army (2nd Lt.) Father: Dermot Spence Mother: Muriel Crailsham Wife: (div., two sons) Son: Colin Son: Ian Wife: Annping Chin
High School: Winchester College University: BA, Clare College, Cambridge University (1959) University: PhD, Yale University (1965) Professor: History, Yale University (1966-) Professor: Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1985 American Historical Association President (2004-05) American Philosophical Society 1993
Guggenheim Fellowship 1979 MacArthur Fellowship 1988
Naturalized US Citizen 2000
Author of books:
Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang–hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master (1966, biography) To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 (1969, history) Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi (1974, biography) The Death of Woman Wang (1978, biography) The Gate of Heavenly Peace: Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 (1981, history) The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984, biography) The Question of Hu (1988, biography) The Search for Modern China (1990, history) Chinese Roundabout: Essays in History and Culture (1992, history) God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (1996, biography) The Taiping Vision of a Christian China, 1836-1864 (1998, history) The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998, history) Mao Zedong (1999, biography) Treason by the Book (2001, history) Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man (2007, biography)
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