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A few weeks after Jonathan Spence, the celebrated historian of China, died at Christmas, ChinaFile began collecting reminiscences from his classmates, doctoral students, and colleagues spanning the five decades of his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, and author.
<p>Spence taught for four decades at Yale, and published a number of popular and critically acclaimed books on the vast history of modern China. </p>
Jonathan Spence ’65 Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, whose scholarship shaped the field of China studies for half a century, died Dec. 25 at home.
Jonathan D. Spence, an eminent scholar of China and its vast history who in books like “God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of H
Jonathan Spence, Who Helped the West Understand China, Dies at 85 -Jonathan Spence, Who Helped the West Understand China, Dies at 85