Janet Chen

The Search for Modern China originated in a legendary course at Yale taught by the late Jonathan Spence and has been the best-selling text for students and teachers of modern Chinese history ever since. Janet Chen (Princeton University), a leading scholar and expert in social and cultural history, updates The Search for Modern China for a new generation. Incorporating insights from recent scholarship throughout, she has also streamlined the text to make it more student-friendly while maintaining the spellbinding narrative.

The Emerging Technology Reader collects the best student writing about emerging technologies in relation to current and future use cases. From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, from STEM education to hockey goalie reaction times, the essays in this collection capture the transformational and critical range of these new modes of knowledge and practice.