The Death of Woman WangBy: Jonathan D. Spence Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl. (The New Republic) Award winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of Tan cheng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a