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Highlights
- "Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . .
- About the Author: Jonathan Spence (1936-2021): Was the author of more than a dozen well-regarded books "which illuminate China's vast history through details that illuminated bigger pictures and themes.
- 192 Pages
- History, Asia
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Book Synopsis
"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.Review Quotes
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 the Author
Jonathan Spence (1936-2021): Was the author of more than a dozen well-regarded books "which illuminate China's vast history through details that illuminated bigger pictures and themes. (The New York Times)" including 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 was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008.Dimensions (Overall): 7.77 Inches (H) x 5.06 Inches (W) x .39 Inches (D)
Weight: .29 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Asia
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: Penguin Books
Theme: China
Format: Paperback
Author: Jonathan D Spence
Language: English
Street Date: March 29, 1979
TCIN: 93778729
UPC: 9780140051216
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-9469
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.29 pounds
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