The Gate of Heavenly Peace
By Jonathan D. Spence
By Jonathan D. Spence
By Jonathan D. Spence
By Jonathan D. Spence
Category: Asian World History
Category: Asian World History
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$30.00
Oct 28, 1982 | ISBN 9780140062793
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Oct 28, 1982 | ISBN 9781101173725
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Praise
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
Table Of Contents
The Gate of Heavenly Peace – Jonathan D. Spence List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Note on Pronunciation
1. Arousing the Spirits
2. Visions and Violence
3. Wanderings
4. The Far Horizon
5. The Land of Hunger
6. Extolling Nirvana
7. Whose Children Are Those?
8. Wake the Spring
9. Farewell to the Beautiful Things
10. Refugees
11. Rectifications
12. A New Order
13. The Noise of the Renegades
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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