"I understand a "modern" nation to be one that is both integrated and receptive, fairly sure of its own identity yet able to join others on equal terms in the quest for new markets, new technologies, new ideas."
"The mausoleum was to rise exactly on the old central axis radiating out from the Forbidden City, an axis that in olden days had carried the eye southward through gate after gate, as in imagination the central force of imperial China spread through the city and beyond the outer wall to the people of "
""The current social and economic systems in Hong Kong will remain unchanged, and so will the life style. Rights and freedoms, including those of the person, of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of travel, of movement, of correspondence, of strike, of choice of occupation, of academi"
"The PLA was undergoing institutional changes of its own. In order to encourage the army to take an innovative role in weapons and delivery- systems development, the Chinese government allowed the P L A to sell its weapons worldwide and to keep for its own use a large proportion of any foreign curren"
史景迁(Jonathan D. Spence),1936年出生于英国,是国际知名的中国近现代史专家,1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰,主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国:西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。