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
Jonathan Spence (1936-2021): Was the author of more than a dozen well-regarded books "which illuminate China's vast history through details that illuminated bigger pictures and themes. (The New York Times)" including The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008.
Praise for The Death of Woman Wang:
“Whether judged as fiction or as historical reconstruction, [this]
is a masterpiece of style and narration.”
—Harold Bloom
“An unforgettable book of historical re-creation.”
—The New Republic
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