![]() Former University President Richard Levin called him ”a towering figure, a scholar of unique insight and imagination.” The historian wove narrative detail into larger cultural themes in his lectures, which would become the building blocks for more than a dozen books, including “The Search for Modern China,” a seminal text published in 19990 that informed the field’s next generation. His courses, which included the “History of Modern China” and “The Qing Dynasty,” had so many interested students that they had to be admitted in separate cohorts during shopping period. Spence, the Sterling Professor emeritus of history who retired in 2009, drew many to Yale and to the study of China. ![]() ![]() For more than 40 years, Jonathan Spence GRD ’61 GRD ’65 lit up packed lecture halls with vivid stories of emperors and everyday people that brought ancient Chinese history into the present. ![]()
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