The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence

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CHAPTER 1 (pages 7-25)

1.	Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion, trans. Cyril Birch ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), pp. 14 and 32.

2.	G. William Skinner, ed., The City in Late Imperial China ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977), p. 351.

3.	Tang Xianzu, p. 34.

4.	Wang Yangming, Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings, trans. Wing-tsit Chan ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), p. 146 (modified).

5.	L. Carrington Goodrich and Fang Chao-ying, eds., Dictionary of Ming Biography ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), p. 708.

6.	This is the first period in which China's interconnectedness with an emerging global economy can be charted. For details of the crisis theory of silver see William Atwell's "Inter- national Bullion Flows and the Chinese Economy circa 1530-1650" ( Past and Present 95 [ May 1982]: 68-90) and the same author's "Some Observations on the 'Seventeenth-Century Crisis' in China and Japan" ( Journal of Asian Studies 45, no. 2 [ February 1986]: 223-224). Also see Frederic Wakeman's "China and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis" ( Late Imperial China 7, no. 1 [ June 1986]: 1-26). This crisis theory is modified in Richard von Glahn, Fountain of Fortune:Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700, ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 237-245.

7.	Helen Dunstan, "The Late Ming Epidemics:"A Preliminary Survey, Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i 3, no. 3 ( 1975): 29-30.

8.	Ibid., 39-40. The basic premises of traditional Chinese medicine are presented in Nathan Sivin , Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987).

CHAPTER 2 (pages 26-48)

1.	Franz Michael, The Origin of Manchu Rule in China ( New York, 1965), p. 121.

2.	Gertraude Roth, The Manchu-Chinese Relationship," 1618-1636, in Jonathan Spence and John Wills, eds., From Ming to Ching ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), p. 9.

3.	Ibid., p. 18.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Search for Modern China. Contributors: Jonathan D. Spence - author. Publisher: W. W. Norton. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1999. Page Number: A3.