The Death of Woman Wang‚ by Jonathan Spence is an educational historical novel of northeastern China during the seventeenth century. The author’s focus was to enlighten a reader on the Chinese people‚ culture‚ and traditions. Spence’s use of the provoking stories of the Chinese county T’an-ch’eng‚ in the province of Shantung‚ brings the reader directly into the course of Chinese history. The use of the sources available to Spence‚ such as the Local History of T’an-ch’eng‚ the scholar-official Huang
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death of woman Wang----a picture of real lives The death of woman Wang is written by Jonathan D. Spence‚ a famous scholar of East Asian studies. This book is focus on the early days of Qing dynasty‚ when Qing dynasty had only been established for about 20 years‚ the government‚ even though the whole society‚ are in their infancies. The author discusses issues of a small county in northeastern China ---T’an-ch’eng‚ which is in the province of Shantung. The genre of this book is difficult to
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The Death of Woman Wang‚ by Jonathan Spence is a historical novel pertaining to average people living in northeastern China. Spence’s book is unlike the “typical” social Confucian society China was thought to resemble during the seventeenth century. In this book‚ ideas of a Confucian family are challenged and can be seen as alternative but non-the-less‚ Confucian throughout human interaction and specifically in individual behavior. The Confucian ideas of filial piety‚ suicide‚ and being subservient
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After reading through the book The Death of Woman Wang‚ and holding group discussions on the material found there‚ I have a somewhat deeper understanding of Chinese culture during the 17th century. I also have more questions than I did prior. The culture is a very complex combination of deep rooted mystical beliefs‚ great respect for elders‚ and collectivism. Land is the most valuable physical asset‚ and honor (for men) or virtue (for women) the most valuable spiritual asset. We see a large emphasis
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Ciciora 1 Michael Ciciora Professor Farrell History 171 15 March 2015 Death of Woman Wang Essay The Death of Woman Wang‚ by Jonathan D. Spence‚ paints a vivid picture of provincial China in the seventeenth century. Manly the life in the northeastern country of T’an-ch’eng. T’an-ch’eng has been through a lot including: an endless cycle of floods‚ plagues‚ crop failures‚ banditry‚ and heavy taxation. Chinese society in Confucian terms was a patriarchal society with strict rules of conduct. The
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Jonathan Spence: author of Death of Woman Wang‚ who used three sources to write his book‚ which follow: Feng K’o‑ts’an: a public official who kept accounts of the district Huang Liu‑hung: a later official who wrote more on the district in his manual on local administration; he is important because he included materials that Feng might have considered too bad to put in his public documentation P’u Sung‑ling: an unhappy scholar who had not done well in the Confucian exam system: he wrote short
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The Death of Woman Wang In the novel‚ The Death of Woman Wang‚ Jonathan Spence illustrates life in T’an-ch’eng‚ a country in Shantung province. Spence writes his story in the perspective of local people in order to portray real life feelings and emotions. The main characters described in this book are the peasants. Spence gives a voices to those who are voiceless as not many people write novels in the perspective of peasants. He uses three sources of information. The first of these sources is the
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I chose to read and write about this book out of curiosity‚ how did Woman Wang die? How can this "novel" be a historical work? I opened the book expecting to see the whole life of Woman Wang‚ and I was wrong. As Spence has commented " she has been to me like one of those stones that one sees shimmering through the water at low tide and picks up from the waves almost with regret‚ knowing that in a few moments the colors suffusing the stone will fade and disappear as the stone dries in the sun
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Assessment Task 2 This assessment task will be marked out of 30 and is worth 30% of your total mark for the BUGEN1530 Principles of Responsible Business course. The task requires you to work both individually and as part of a group in applying the Giving Voice to Values framework to a given scenario. More details are listed below under the heading Task Requirements. You need to complete both the individual and the group requirements to pass this assessment. Groups and Scenarios Your lecturer
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Alexander Wang Devan Burton FMD 101 Section #1 His New Look Alexander Wang was born May 17th‚ 1984 in San Francisco‚ California. At age 18‚ he moved to New York to attend parsons The New School for Design to study fashion design. After he dropped out his sophomore year‚ he launched his first women’s ready-to-wear collection in 2007. The label represents a casually cool downtown style‚ drawing inspiration from the nineties‚ French chic‚ and rock grunge-always finished off with a slouchy‚ rolled-out-of-bed
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