Jonathan Spence (1936-2021): Was the author of more than a dozen well-regarded books "which illuminate China's vast history through details that illuminated bigger pictures and themes. (The New York Times)" including  The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008.

Praise for The Gate of Heavenly Peace: “Absolutely first rate; it is adventurous in form, scrupulous in content, passionate in its revelation of complex human drama.”—Saturday Review  “[Jonathan Spence] has woven a magical symphony that tells us as no conventional history could of the agony of a nation in awesome labor.”—Harrison E. Salisbury, Chicago Tribune Book World  “With a novelist’s flair for life and a historian’s grounding in fact . . . there is no other work to match this in sweep, vivacity, and humanity.”—Library Journal

• The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Jonathan D. Spence List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceNote on Pronunciation1. Arousing the Spirits2. Visions and Violence3. Wanderings4. The Far Horizon5. The Land of Hunger6. Extolling Nirvana7. Whose Children Are Those?8. Wake the Spring9. Farewell to the Beautiful Things10. Refugees11. Rectifications12. A New Order13. The Noise of the RenegadesNotesBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Spence (1936-2021): Was the author of more than a dozen well-regarded books "which illuminate China's vast history through details that illuminated bigger pictures and themes. (The New York Times)" including  The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008.

Praise for The Gate of Heavenly Peace: “Absolutely first rate; it is adventurous in form, scrupulous in content, passionate in its revelation of complex human drama.”—Saturday Review  “[Jonathan Spence] has woven a magical symphony that tells us as no conventional history could of the agony of a nation in awesome labor.”—Harrison E. Salisbury, Chicago Tribune Book World  “With a novelist’s flair for life and a historian’s grounding in fact . . . there is no other work to match this in sweep, vivacity, and humanity.”—Library Journal

• The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Jonathan D. Spence List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceNote on Pronunciation1. Arousing the Spirits2. Visions and Violence3. Wanderings4. The Far Horizon5. The Land of Hunger6. Extolling Nirvana7. Whose Children Are Those?8. Wake the Spring9. Farewell to the Beautiful Things10. Refugees11. Rectifications12. A New Order13. The Noise of the RenegadesNotesBibliographyIndex