The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence

The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence

ISBN-13: 9780393027082

ISBN-10: 0393027082

Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc; 1st edition (1990-04-01)

No country, over the past few centuries, has been free of turmoil and

tragedy. It is as if there were a restlessness and a capacity for violence at

the center of the human spirit that can never be contained, so that no

society can achieve a perfect tranquility. Yet in every country, too, humans

have shown a love of beauty, a passion for intellectual adventure, a gentleness,

an exuberant sensuality, and a yearning for justice that have cut

across the darkness and filled their world with light. They have struggled

constantly to understand the world, to protect themselves from its ravages,

to organize it more effectively, and to make it a place in which their

children might live without hunger or fear.