The Death of Woman Wang

The Death of Woman Wang

â€œSpence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.â€ (The New Republic)
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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 Tâ€™an-châ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780140051216
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1979-03-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140051216

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