Death Of Woman Wang

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The book, The Death of Woman Wang is set in a corner of northeast China during the seventeenth century, in a country called T'an-ch'eng. This book focuses on average people of China community. The farmers, their wives, and other non educated people. The book was first published in America in 1978 by Jonathan D. Spence, who also wrote Emperor of China. This book was compiled from three sources. The first is the Local History of T'a-nch'eng, compiled in 1973, it told of the country's history, location and topography. The second is personal memoirs of a scholar named Huang Lia-hung. It told of his life as an official in the mid 1600's. The third was the work of a short story writer named P'u Sung-ling, who told of the hostility and misery of the country. Reading this book was new to me because I had never heard exactly how the woman was treated in Chinese civilization. It seemed fairly ruff but in its own way it was almost the same in the rest of the world at that time "give or take a few small details". It was a good book but sometimes took a few cycles of reading through to get the part you were looking for. The role of men and women of the sixteenth century are defined in this book, a few of these examples are. On page nineteen were a man refers to the way that married and unmarried girls should not stroll by the river or ride up the hill in a carriage, but how they should stay home and raise the children. It also refers to how men often rented out their wives for money. On page sixty three it tells of how a man let his wife take over the family business for six months, and when the tax collector came to gather the tax he told here that a smart woman was no match for a stupid man. On page eighty two it tells a story of how a man was gambling and when he ran out of money he put his wife up for the bet and lost. When a year had passed and he had still not paid his debt

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