The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence I've had this for a while and when I was on my way to China and knew I would be reading and dropping books as we went, it seemed a good choice. I like Jonathan Spence's other works about China and figured this would be some sort of a historical tale about a murder in China/5. “Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winnin. "The Death of Woman Wang," by Jonathan D. Spence gives the reader an in-depth idea of life in a small county in Northern China, in the s. The book is a historical reconstruction of T'an-ch'eng County, in Shantung Province. This is an area on the tributaries of the Yellow River, that is .
Ethan Marshall Armstrong State University. The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence details the life of those living in provincial China during the s. Spence focuses his writing on a particular northeastern county of China called T'an-ch'eng and uses both historical writings, like those of Feng K'o-ts'an (), a Chinese scholar of the day, as well as local stories by the. Four years ago Jonathan Spence's Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi scored as a tour de force of creative scholarship and literary reconstruction; simply for reading, the present volume is less satisfying—a composite, not a sustained narrative—but it has the distinction of burrowing into the lives of ordinary people in one rural fastness of 17th-century China. About Jonathan D. Spence. Jonathan D. Spence's 11 books on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. He has been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships and is professor emeritus of history at Yale University.
in the book concerns the Woman Wang of the title, who ran away with her lover, only to be abandoned by him and forced to return to her husband, who then brutally murdered her. He dragged her body out into the night, abandoning it in the street, and later accused a neighbor, with whom he had been feuding, of having had an affair. "The Death of Woman Wang," by Jonathan D. Spence gives the reader an in-depth idea of life in a small county in Northern China, in the s. The book is a historical reconstruction of T'an-ch'eng County, in Shantung Province. This is an area on the tributaries of the Yellow River, that is inland but not far from the sea. The death of woman Wang, Jonathan D. Spence. Resource Information. The item The death of woman Wang, Jonathan D. Spencerepresents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This item is available to borrow from all library branches. Creator.
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