The Death of Woman Wang
内容简介
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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作者简介
Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey, England, in 1936. He was educated at Winchester College and at Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965. He is George Burton Adams Professor of HIstory at Yale, where he is also chairman of the Council on East Asian Studies and director of the Division of the Humanities.
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目录
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
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读书文摘
让人觉得讽刺的是，中国人对国史和县史的撰写至为周备，地方记录却多半未见保存。我们通常找不到验尸官验尸、行会交易、严密的土地租赁记录，或教区出生、婚姻、死亡记录之类的资料——而正是这些资料，使我们能对欧洲中世纪后期的历史，作极其周密细致的解读。
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