Death of Wang: the Fate of a Small Person Behind the Big History
About This Novel
"The Death of Wang" is not large in length. It reproduces the lives of the rural people in Yancheng and Zichuan, Shandong Province in the early Qing Dynasty. One of the protagonists, Mrs. Wang, could not bear the pressure of life and eloped with others, but died tragically at the hands of her husband. The author Shi Jingqian has always focused on literary narrative, trying to reshape or capture the lost time, space and characters' lives behind rigid historical materials through superb narrative skills and keen perception. In terms of data, "Tancheng County Chronicle" and local chronicles of several other places are important basis for this book. The third source used in this book, "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", is a fictional novel. The author used it extensively to construct the mental images of local people in Shandong in the early Qing Dynasty. From the perspective of today's cultural history research, this method of combining historical documents and literary works shows the author's creativity and foresight.
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