Jonathan D. Spence | |||||||
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Born | Surrey, England | 11 August 1936||||||
Died | 25 December 2021 West Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 85)||||||
Nationality | British and American | ||||||
Education | Clare College, Cambridge (MA) Yale University (PhD) | ||||||
Spouse | Annping Chin | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Chinese history | ||||||
Institutions | Yale University | ||||||
Doctoral advisor | Mary C. Wright | ||||||
Other academic advisors | Fang Chao-ying (房兆楹)[1] | ||||||
Doctoral students | Sherman Cochran,[2] Robert Oxnam[2] Pamela Kyle Crossley, Kenneth Pomeranz, Joanna Waley-Cohen Mark C. Elliott[3] | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 史景遷 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 史景迁 | ||||||
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Jonathan Dermot Spence CMG (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was a British-American historian, sinologist, and author specialised in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. A prolific author, reviewer, and essayist, he published over a dozen books on China. Spence's major interest was modern China, especially the Qing dynasty, and relations between China and the West.[4] Spence frequently used biographies to examine cultural and political history. Another common theme is the efforts of both Westerners and Chinese "to change China",[5] and how such efforts were frustrated.[4]
Happily, several of Spence's Ph.D. students decided to throw their efforts into a conference and celebration in his honor, on the Yale Campus, in early May.... Four attendees in particular – Robert Oxnam, Roger DesForges, Sherman Cochran, and I – represented the original tranche of doctoral candidates who finished their degrees under Jonathan's benign and helpful guidance...
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