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The death of Woman Wang / Jonathan D. Spence.
- Title
- The death of Woman Wang / Jonathan D. Spence.
- Author
- Spence, Jonathan D.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 1979, c1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ1767 .S63 1979 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 169 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
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- History
- Note
- Reprint of the 1978 ed. published by Viking Press.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 163-169.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The observers -- The land -- The widow -- The fued -- The woman who ran away
- ISBN
- 014005121X
- LCCN
- ^^^78026465^
- OCLC
- 4493378
- SCSB-11577569
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library