Woman Wang

Jonathan Spence author of finis of char Wang, who used three sources to write his book, which follow marsh Kook-tats a general official who kept accounts of the district Hang Ill-hung a ulterior official who wrote more on the district in his manual on local administration he is important because he included materials that Fen might have considered too bad to put in his public documentation Pu Sung-ling an unhappy scholar who had not done rise in the Confucian exam system he wrote short stories of fiction. oft appearing as small type in the book terminal) Than-chosen folksy district where Death takes place in northern 1 seventh 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/ young Imperial China, how did the legal system and access to repertor y affect 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 mediator 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 look at the situation? What happens to Woman Wang? How does Hang Ill-hung handle the situation in the trial? Describe the ways Confucian set permeate this society. Describe some of the practices and beliefs of Buddhism as it IS expressed in The Death of Woman Wang.