{"product_id":"the-death-of-woman-wang-9780140051216","title":"The Death of Woman Wang","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-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, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Woman Wang\u003c\/i\u003e also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140051216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.77h x 5.06w x 0.39d","brand":"Jonathan D. Spence","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44655445311669,"sku":"9780140051216","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9dbdacd6-d178-4127-b411-03045e1385ad.jpg?v=1727192298","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-death-of-woman-wang-9780140051216","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}