Woman Wang

Jonathan Spence author of Death of cleaning woman Wang, who used three sources to write his book, which follow Fen Kook-tats a public official who kept accounts of the district devolve Ill-hung a later official who wrote more on the district in his manual on local tribunal he is important because he included materials that Fen might have considered too bad to put in his public documentation Pu Sung-ling an discontented scholar who had not done well in the Confucian exam system he wrote short stories of fiction. Often appearing as small sign in the book Death) Than-chosen rural district where Death takes place in northern 1 7th century China Ill Thing-yan Hoist-ere His-ill Woman Penn Tutus Eng Woman Too Tutus-Hussein Woman Wang Reading Questions How did Women Penn, Too, and Wang experience challenges in terms of their relationships to their husbands and their positions within their families? In Than-chosen/Late Imperial China, how did the legal system and access to repertory p resume the real-life women in the Death of Woman Wang?What was the role of the Chinese magistrate Hang Ill-hung in T an-chosen? In what ways was he acting as a intermediator for the central Imperial Government of China and an overseer of affairs in this district? What actions does he take that make him successful? How do the stories of Hoist-ere, His-ill, and Tutus-Hussein (all by PU Sung-ling), reflect successful women? To what extent are these stories unrealistic portrayals of seventeenth-century Chinese omen, based on the real-life stories of women presented by Jonathan Spence?What trouble does the outlaw Wang family get into in T an-chosen? How does the magistrate Hang Ill-hung handle the situation? What happens to Woman Wang? How does Hang Ill-hung handle the situation in the trial? Describe the ways Confucian values permeate this society. Describe any(prenominal) of the practices and beliefs of Buddhism as it IS expressed in The Death of Woman Wang.