ISBN:
0297775170
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 169 S.
,
Kt.
DDC:
951.032
Keywords:
Geschichte 1668-1672
;
Alltag
;
Tancheng
;
Tancheng
;
Alltag
;
Geschichte 1668-1672
Description / Table of Contents:
Inhalt: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- One: The Observers -- Two: The Land -- Three: The Widow -- Four: The Feud -- Five: The Woman Who Ran Away -- Epilogue: The Trial -- Notes -- Bibliography
Note:
Angaben zum Inhalt: 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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