Jonathan Spence is a former Sterling Professor of Chinese history at Yale, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. His most recent book was Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of Late Ming Man (2007).
‘Only a handful of Chinese before him had journeyed to the West.’
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