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    Janet Chen

    Janet Chen is a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University, where she has taught courses on modern China and East Asia since 2006. Her books include Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900–1953, a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution, and The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960, a social history of how people learned to speak Mandarin.

    Janet Chen

    Janet Chen is a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University, where she has taught courses on modern China and East Asia since 2006. Her books include Guilty of Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900–1953, a study of the destitute homeless during a time of war and revolution, and The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960, a social history of how people learned to speak Mandarin.

    Books by Janet Chen

    • The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection

      Janet Chen, Pei-kai Cheng, Michael Lestz, Jonathan D. Spence

      Third Edition, Paperback, 2013

      The most widely used primary-source reader for the modern China course, thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the new edition of Spence, The Search for Modern China.

    • The Search for Modern China

      Jonathan D. Spence, Janet Chen

      Fourth Edition, Paperback, 2025

      The gold standard for the modern Chinese history course, for a new generation

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