In “To Change China,” Jonathan Spence profiled foreigners who “kept insisting on having the right to alter China.” In “The Chan’s Great Continent,” he described how views of China in the West were often based on the West’s own projected fears. @shashamimi https://t.co/xm4EgDXdlC

…and his smaller books are also marvels of structure and approach. I especially love ‘The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci’ and ‘The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds.’