The Death of Woman Wang
ISBN-13:
9780140051216
ISBN-10:
014005121X
Edition:
26th edition
Author:
Jonathan D. Spence
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Category:
China
,
Asian History
,
Women in History
,
World History
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ISBN-13:
9780140051216
ISBN-10:
014005121X
Edition:
26th edition
Author:
Jonathan D. Spence
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Category:
China
,
Asian History
,
Women in History
,
World History
Summary
The Death of Woman Wang (ISBN-13: 9780140051216 and ISBN-10: 014005121X), written by authors
Jonathan D. Spence, was published by Penguin Books in 1998.
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“Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic)
Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.
Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.
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