The Death of Woman Wang - Hardcover

Spence, Jonathan D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670262323 ISBN 13: 9780670262328

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1978

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Spence's eleven books on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Yale University.

Review:

Praise for The Death of Woman Wang:
 
“Whether judged as fiction or as historical reconstruction, [this] is a masterpiece of style and narration.”
—Harold Bloom
 
“An unforgettable book of historical re-creation.”
—The New Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0670262323
• ISBN 13: 9780670262328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 169