Wang Hatunun Ölümü

Jonathan D. Spence has a well-deserved reputation as an expert on Chinese history. In this book, we travel to the Tan-cheng region of Shandong Province, one of the poorest regions in China in the 17th century. But we are not there to discuss modernization—we are there to find the forgotten, the ignored, who have never made it into the official historical narrative, to uncover the untold.
They are the poor and helpless people who have always been assigned the role of victim: sometimes victims of natural disasters, sometimes of bandits, soldiers, tax collectors, and their own government. Drawing on local records and the exquisite stories of Pu Sing-Ling, a Chinese writer who lived in Tan-cheng at the time, The Death of Wang Lady paints a definitive portrait of the region, from its government to its economy, from its daily life to its religious rituals, and tells the tragedy of those at the bottom, of the bottom, of women.
You will read the stories of women who are expected to dedicate their intelligence and beauty to their marriages with unconditional loyalty, women who have to struggle with other men in the family to raise their children after the death of their husbands, women who leave the baby they are expecting from a lover who gave her up for a rich husband and women who leave their lives in the hands of their fathers. You will see how a long and narrow road stretches from Tan-çeng to Batman.



Number of Pages: 176

Year of Publication: 2006


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

Year of First Publication: 2006

Number of Pages: 176

Language: Turkish