|
|
Product Description
“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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (Third Edition)
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
- Six Records of a Floating Life (Penguin Classics)
- Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History (Mysearchlab Series for History)
- Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed
- Family
- China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China)
- Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
- The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China)
- Galileo
*If this is not the "The Death of Woman Wang" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Dec 19, 2024 18:43 +08.
