Please join Yale’s Writing History group for the unique opportunity to discuss
“Shaping the Past: How Free Can We Be?”
with Jonathan Spence on Tuesday, March 25, 5 p.m. in HGS 204.
Practically anything written by Professor Spence can offer up questions about the nature of historical writing, weighing evidence, and spinning imaginative tales, so I have chosen selections from books old and new, as well as a few other sources that might provide different angles. They are:
- Chapters 6 and 8 of his newest book, Return to Dragon Mountain
- the final 25 pages of The Death of Woman Wang
- comments on Margaret Atwood
from John Demos and Jonathan Spence in the American Historical Review, with reaction to letters
- For those with a bit more time, I’d highly recommend reading Woman Wang, Return to Dragon Mountain, The Question of Hu
For more information contact Adam Arenson
