Jonathan Dermot Spence CMG (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) 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.

Jan 3, 2022 · Jonathan Spence ’65 Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, whose scholarship shaped the field of China studies for half a century, died Dec. 25 at home in West Haven, Connecticut of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Dec 27, 2021 · NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan D. Spence, a British-born historian who became a longtime Yale University professor and prominent sinologist and attracted a wide following with his 1990 best-seller “The Search for Modern China,” has died at age 85.

Dec 27, 2021 · Jonathan D. Spence, an eminent scholar of China and its vast history who in books like “God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan” (1996) and “The Search for Modern China”...

Mar 31, 2022 · Jonathan Spence, a pathbreaking historian of China and former AHA president, died on December 25, 2021, from complications of Parkinson’s. Jonathan received his PhD from Yale University in 1965 and taught there until retiring in 2008.

Dec 27, 2021 · NEW YORK — Jonathan D. Spence, a British-born historian, longtime Yale University professor and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner who attracted a wide following with his 1990 bestseller, “The...

Dec 1, 2004 · Jonathan D. Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, was born in England on August 11, 1936, the son of Dermot and Muriel Crailsham Spence. His was a lettered family.

Jonathan Spence, the 39th Jefferson Lecturer, is our foremost scholar of Chinese history. Known for his literary craftsmanship as well as groundbreaking research, he has in his numerous books and articles achieved the unlikely feat of improving …

Dec 28, 2021 · One person who tried to change that was Jonathan Spence of Yale University, who has died at the age of 85. NPR's Anthony Kuhn has this remembrance.

Professor Jonathan Spence (1936-2021) was a prolific historian who deepened Western readers' understanding of China's history and culture through his artful mastery of narrative history grounded in rigorous research.