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Title: Death of Woman Wang, The by Jonathan D. Spence ISBN: 014005121X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 2
Summary: Mixed Bag
Comment: Woman Wang is a piece of work that one can read to get a sense of life for women in China during this time period. However, one should take this book with a grain of salt, since women were not always as powerless as Spence tries to argue. (In fact Woman Wang does display some of her power simply by breaking the "rules"). While factual in presenting more of the well-known facets of Confucian-ruled society and its effects on women, including the legal system, much of this book is speculative and sentimental. It often reads more as historical fiction than a work by a professor of Chinese History at a prestigious university. It does not flow smoothly, pulling the reader jerkily from third person narrative of woman wang to analysis of documents and explanations from a historical/sociological perspective and back to narrative again. For an advanced student of Chinese culture, history, etc., if this book did not get a glance in her/his early years, it will not provide much insight. He has performed better in later works. Still, it remains a neat, compact work for a neophyte, and to this day retains its use in introductory classes on Chinese history.
Rating: 4
Summary: Imperfect, but Worthwhile
Comment: A little hard to follow sometimes, and the author could have artfully trimmed it in a couple of places -- after all, it was written for a lay audience, so an excess of historical details can be distracting. Still, it provides a glimpse into a little-known portion of history, and it's comprehensible to a general audience. As I say, imperfect, but worthwhile.
Rating: 1
Summary: The Death of Woman Wang
Comment: I really did not care for this book and I thought it hard to follow at times and it was not keeping my attention.
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Title: Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'Ang-Hsi by Jonathan D. Spence, Kangxi ISBN: 067972074X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Lao Toai-Toai Ning, Ning L. T'Ai-T'ai, Lao T'Ai-T'ai Ning, Ida Pruitt ISBN: 0804706069 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 by Jonathan D. Spence ISBN: 0140055282 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Stories of Scottsboro by James E. Goodman ISBN: 0679761594 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Modern China and Japan: A Brief History by Conrad Schirokauer ISBN: 0155598708 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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