The death of Woman Wang

by Jonathan D. Spence

Paperback, 1978

Collection

Genres

Status

Available

Description

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.

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 1979, c1978.

ISBN

014005121X / 9780140051216

Pages

xvii; 169

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1978
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