The Death of Woman Wang
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...
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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
