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Jonathan D. Spence: Career, Academic career & Early life and education

Jonathan Dermot Spence CMG (Chinese: 史景遷; pinyin: Shǐ Jǐngqiān; 11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was a British-American sinologist and historian who specialised in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. He was best known for his book The Search for Modern China (1990), a survey of the last several…

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Jonathan D. Spence topic overview

The analysis highlights Career, Academic career and Early life and education as prominent areas in the source structure around Jonathan D. Spence.

Related topics
52
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
67
Extracted relationships
13
Concept neighborhoods
28
Bridge connections
67

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Academic career · 25 topics
Early life and education · 12 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Personal life · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Education
Clare College, Cambridge (MA) Yale University (PhD)
Born
(1936-08-11)11 August 1936 Surrey, England
Died
25 December 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 85) West Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Doctoral advisor
Mary C. Wright
Doctoral students
Sherman Cochran, Robert Oxnam Pamela Kyle Crossley, Kenneth Pomeranz, Joanna Waley-Cohen, Mark C. Elliott
Fields
Sinology

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life and education

Academic career

Personal life

Bibliography

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Jonathan D. Spence connects Entity context

The extracted context around Jonathan D. Spence shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Jonathan D. Spence → (1936-08-11)11 August 1936 Surrey, England Another extracted example is Jonathan D. Spence → 25 December 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 85) West Haven, Connecticut, U.S.. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Jonathan D. Spence

Top relations

Born · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → (1936-08-11)11 August 1936 Surrey, England
Died · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → 25 December 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 85) West Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Doctoral advisor · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Mary C. Wright
Doctoral students · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Sherman Cochran, Robert Oxnam Pamela Kyle Crossley, Kenneth Pomeranz, Joanna Waley-Cohen, Mark C. Elliott
Education · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Clare College, Cambridge (MA) Yale University (PhD)
Fields · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Sinology
Hanyu Pinyin · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Shǐ Jǐngqiān
Other academic advisors · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Fang Chao-ying (房兆楹)
Simplified Chinese · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → 史景迁
Spouse · 1
Jonathan D. Spence → Annping Chin

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

chinese china history spence yale new york university modern isbn book books search cambridge shǐ jǐngqiān 2008 spence's pinyin 1990

Jonathan D. Spence relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 13 structured relationships around Jonathan D. Spence. Examples in this analysis include Jonathan D. Spence → Born → (1936-08-11)11 August 1936 Surrey, England and Jonathan D. Spence → Died → 25 December 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 85) West Haven, Connecticut, U.S.. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Jonathan D. SpenceBorn(1936-08-11)11 August 1936 Surrey, England1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceDied25 December 2021(2021-12-25) (aged 85) West Haven, Connecticut, U.S.1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceDoctoral advisorMary C. Wright1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceDoctoral studentsSherman Cochran, Robert Oxnam Pamela Kyle Crossley, Kenneth Pomeranz, Joanna Waley-Cohen, Mark C. Elliott1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceEducationClare College, Cambridge (MA) Yale University (PhD)1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceFieldsSinology1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceHanyu PinyinShǐ Jǐngqiān1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceOther academic advisorsFang Chao-ying (房兆楹)1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceSimplified Chinese史景迁1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceSpouseAnnping Chin1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceTraditional Chinese史景遷1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinShǐ Jǐngqiān1.00infobox
Jonathan D. SpenceWorkplacesYale University1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Jonathan D. Spence bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Pinyin, 史景遷 and Jǐngqiān. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • chinese
    • History
    • Pinyin
    • 史景遷
    • Jǐngqiān
    • Shǐ
    • Spence's
    • Search
    • Modern
    • China
    • University
    • Jonathan
    • Yale
  • chinese history
    • History
    • Yale
    • Jǐngqiān
    • Pinyin
    • Shǐ
    • 史景遷
    • Search
    • Spence's
    • Modern
    • University
    • China
    • Annping
  • sterling professor of history
    • Yale
    • Jǐngqiān
    • Shǐ
    • Search
    • Modern
    • University
    • China
    • Annping
    • Pinyin
    • 史景遷
    • Spence
    • Chin
  • chinese university of hong kong
    • History
    • Yale
    • Pinyin
    • 史景遷
    • Book
    • Cambridge
    • Jǐngqiān
    • Shǐ
    • Spence's
    • Search
    • Modern
    • China
  • treason by the book
    • Search
    • Modern
    • Career
    • Education
    • University
    • China
    • Academic
    • Yale
    • Annping
    • Clare
    • Haven
    • West
  • the new york review of books
    • New
    • York
    • China
    • Isbn
    • Times
    • Career
    • Education
    • Academic
    • Search
    • Annping
    • Chinese
    • Clare
  • Jonathan D. Spence
    • Pinyin
    • 史景遷
    • Jǐngqiān
    • Shǐ
    • June
    • Spence's
    • Spence
    • Chinese
    • University
    • China
    • Haven
    • History
  • jonathan d. spence
    • Pinyin
    • 史景遷
    • Jǐngqiān
    • Shǐ
    • June
    • Spence's
    • Spence
    • Chinese
    • University
    • China
    • Haven
    • History

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Jonathan D. Spence, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Jonathan D. Spence with Academic career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Jonathan D. SpenceAcademic career · splits 42 ⟂ 26
Jonathan D. SpenceEarly life and education · splits 55 ⟂ 13
Jonathan D. SpenceBibliography · splits 57 ⟂ 11
Jonathan D. SpenceOverview · splits 58 ⟂ 10
Jonathan D. SpencePersonal life · splits 61 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Jonathan D. Spence

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples13
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Jonathan D. Spence to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career, Academic career & Early life and education, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Jonathan D. Spence · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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