Jonathan Spence

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan is a book by Jonathan Spence.

Treason by the Book, by Jonathan Spence, is a historical account of the Zeng Jing case which took place during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of China, around the 1730s. Zeng Jing, a failed degree candidate heavily influenced by the seventeenth-century scholar Lü Liuliang, in October 1728 attempted to incite the …