![]() ![]() ![]() The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, a Los Angeles Times book prize and numerous other honors, Spence wrote more than a dozen books on China, along with reviews, essays and lectures. ![]() His wife and fellow Yale professor, Annping Chin, said the cause was complications from Parkinson's disease. Spence, who retired from Yale in 2008, died Saturday at his home in West Haven, Connecticut. 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. ![]()
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