Jonathan Spence, English-American historian and academic (died 2021)

Jonathan D. Spence

English-born American historian (1936–2021)

Jonathan Dermot Spence was a British-American historian, sinologist, and author specialised in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several…