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Hmm... well, I haven't read all that many of them. The one I had for History 280 (East Asian History to 1500) was pretty boring, so I wouldn't reccomend it. "History in Three Keys" is good, but it only really talks about the Boxer Rebellion, and how perceptions about it have changed since then. I have read several articles by Jonathan Spence, and that author's really good... although he does have a very narrow focus in his books. "God's Chinese Son" is apparently a really interesting portrayal of the Taiping Rebellion, and the book he wrote on Arcadio Huong (this Chinese man living in Paris) seems pretty good from the exert I've read of him. Otherwise... I'm not really well-versed in Chinese history. ;_; Sorry. I'm excited to be taking a third-year history class in the winter semester of this year, which will be the History of East Asia from 1500, like a sequel to the other course that I took... only I'm taking it with my favourite history teacher, Professor Dunch. :3 (well, I loved M. Rousseau better, but he taught me in junior high, so... ;) )