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| #57735 in Books | Jonathan D Spence | 1998-09-03 | 1979-03-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.72 x.50 x5.10l,.29 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | The Death of Woman Wang||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not a good place for women|By Paolo & Francesca|This is an excellent book for learning about life for ordinary people in rural China. The author weaves together historical exposition and narrative storytelling to paint a vivid picture of life in China while helping us understand its legal and social customs. The names get confusing and the Wade-Giles rendering is outdated, but||Praise for The Death of Woman Wang:| |“Whether judged as fiction or as historical reconstruction, [this] is a masterpiece of style and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-cr
“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 backg...
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