Title: Great overview!
Review: Spence's book is lucid and chock full-o-information. It is the best single volume I've read dealing with the last 500 years of China's history.You can safely ignore the reviewers who have given scathing reviews of the book without offering any justification for their attacks. When dealing with the subject of China it is not uncommon to run into people who are willing to trash scholarship only to expose a big chip on their shoulder.
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