The book, The Death of Woman Wang is set
in a corner of northeast
China during the
seventeenth century, in a country called T'an-ch'eng. This book focuses
on average people
of China community. The farmers, their
wives, and other non
educated people. The book was first published in America in
1978 by Jonathan D.
Spence, who also
wrote Emperor of China. This book was
compiled from three sources.
The first is the
Local History of T'a-nch'eng, compiled in 1973, it told of the country's
history, location
and topography.
The second is personal
memoir's of a scholar named
Huang
Lia-hung. It told of his life as an
official in the mid 1600's. The third
was the
work of a short
story writer named P'u Sung-ling, who told of the hostility and misery of
the country. Reading this book was new to me because I had
never heard exactly how the
woman was treated
in Chinese civilization. It seamed
fairly ruff but in its own way it was
almost the same
in the rest of the world at that time "give or take a few small
details". It
was a good book
but some times took a few cycles of reading through to get the part you
were looking
for.
The role of men and women of the
sixteenth century are defined in this
book, a few of
these examples are. On page nineteen
were a man refers to the way that
married and
unmarried girls should not stroll by the river or ride up the hill in a
carriage,
but how they
should stay home and raise the children.
It also refers to how men often
rented out their
wives for money. On page sixty three it tells of how a man let his wife
take over the
family business for six months, and when the tax collector came to gather
the tax he told
here that a smart woman was no match for a stupid man. On page eighty
two it tells a
story of how a man was gambling and when he ran out of money he put his
wife up for the
bet and lost. When a year had passed and
he had still not paid his debt so
the people took
his wife.
On
page ninety nine and one hundred it tells almost like a manual of what
women are bonded
to do, to be loyal and women like. It starts out by saying that a few of
the
characteristics that women should have, like chastity, courage, tenacity, and
death if
necessary when
the husband dies to prevent rape. Out of
fifteen women thirteen of them
had committed
suicide to save face.
About only right that I found in this
book that women have is on page
seventy two and
seventy three, If the husband dies and
he has a business she may inherit
it only if she
has a son but when the son is old enough to run it she must hand it over to
him.
This book also tells of how families
acted and how children were raised
also of how they
were treated. It also refers to how only boys go to school to get an
education. On
page seventy eight and seventy nine it tells of how married life was for P'u
Sung-ling and how
his children acted. In one instance it
tells of how he was engaged
when he was only
ten year's old , they were married when they were twelve and had a
son. The son was very wild in school and in public
the only one that he would listen to
was his
mother. But as soon as she left he would
act up again. In one instance the next
door neighbor was
yelling so loud that it disturbed the whole neighborhood. So he
crawled over the
fence and cut off here nose, ears, and toung and left the woman to die.
The people of the farming working class
had hardships in ways that was
painful. First of all the famine was bad when the crop
wouldn't make enough to pay the
taxes there
wasn't food and sometimes had to move in
order to escape the taxes that they
could not
pay. On page thirty six it tells of how
the tax's were set up, the heaviest was
when they
harvested and it declined to winter when they didn't have to pay taxes. These
taxes were a
quota that every Chinese city had to pay to Peking.
The book The Classic Slum was Written by
Robert Roberts and was first
published in
1971. Roberts was born in a Salford slum
in 1905. His parents owned a
corner shop and
after school he was an engineer apprentice for seven years, he focused to
writing which won
him many scholarships and awards, he has two other books called
Imprisoned
Tongues and A Ragged Schooling. This
book depicts life in a slum in Britain
in the year 1914 and shows us how bad the
hardships were. It shows us how bad the
poverty was along
with the Illiteracy and crime. Reading
this book made me think of
how my great
grandfather might have felt as he struggled to survive and put food on his
families
table. This book was also an inspiration
to me as I learned how bad the lower
class people of
this time had it and how the hole family would work all day and still
struggle to feed
themselves and put clothes on their backs.
This book depicts the poverty of this era
and here are a few passages that
illustrate theses
words. On page eighteen it shows just
how low of a class these people
were, your
average industry worker would make L70
a year were as your average
middle class worker
would make L340 a year.
On page thirty three it tells of how
Clothing clubs exist so you could go in
and pay for the
clothing check at a time like buying a new car.
It also tells of how people
would take
advantage of this system by taking the cloths then selling them to a neighbor
for half face
value and have enough over to get drunk on.
On page seventy five it tells of
how some of the
people were to poor to buy clothes at the poor cloths shop also it tells of
how one in four
homes in Britain lacked the bare necessities for life in there home. It
also tells of the
common things used for heat to include an open flame or buy stealing
coal or by
dragging the canals for droppings. On
page thirty six they refer to furniture
as
if today like a
new Jaguar it was so expensive that only the middle class and upper class
had it.
Food and drink was also a very hard
choice here are a few examples that
the people had
never enough. On page fifteen they refer
to a grocery store as a gold
mine. And on page one twelve it tells that in 1904
that one in six babies die in the first
six months from
malnutrition. And on page one eighty
seven it tells of how when the war
broke out
that many men were denied to enter the
army because of malnutrition bad
teeth, bones and
not big enough. The few that got in came
back for leave and their
parents could
hardly recognize them strong, big and healthy.
The milk was either bought in the store or by
dairy men vendors in the
street and the
last inch of milk was gray from the dirt.
The vendors would put
formaldehyde in
the milk to keep it from spoiling so fast, even thought it caused intestinal
problems, so the
practice of selling milk in the street was banned in 1901.
On page one twelve it tells of the table
place of the poor and how they
bought there eggs
form vendors that were almost always bad or broke but in the eyes of
the poor nothing
was bad nothing could be considered bad beer, egg, milk, bread ect. The
percent of
inmates in prison that were Illiterate
grew from 1835 from 10% to 80% in
1904 on page
sixty nine. On page one twenty it says
that men considered pop to be a
woman and child
drink , that men only drink beer and
that beer is a mans food one man
was considered to
seldom drink less than four quarts a day.
The family would work all
week to buy food
for themselves and then on Saturday night the husband would take what
was left over and
spend it at the bar to bask away the reality of the pressures of famine.
Woman of this time were treated as
cookers, workers, mothers and wives.
They had no power
at the local government, but sometimes did concede in some of the
decisions of the
house.
In my conclusion of the two book's I see
socio-economic layers that
continue to this
day. Every social environment has the
rich the poor and the barriers that
separate
them. In the The Death of Woman Wang the
female is considered less
valuable then in
The Classic Slum. They both depict
severe discrimination in part of the
female but you
can see the differences . Like in the
The Death of Woman Wang the
woman has
inheritance rights but only if she has children to secede her, but in The
Classic Slum the
woman has extensive inheritance rights.
The books are both sided in
the part of
poverty they both have it and yet the male drinks and gambles the precious
money away. Education is more stressed in the book The
Death of Woman Wang even
poor fathers that
could not afford to send there children to school taught them at home.
But in The
Classic Slum the children are regarded to have more of an obligation to work
than to go to
school and learn.
The taxes are a major role in the poverty
situation in The Death of
Woman Wang but the low wages are a factor in the book
The Classic Slum.
Malnutrition
plays a factor in The Classic Slum but the food factor is not as great in The
Death of Woman
Wang. The respect that a widow has on
here dead husband is in no
way the same
effect that the widow has on here dead husband in The Death of Woman
Wang. The Classic Slums wife would just remarry of
get a divorce to solve the problem,
but in The Death
of Woman Wang the woman would commit
suicide to save here
name. In the Classic Slum the man would borrow
money on the wives name so that if he
couldn't pay it
back only her name would be ruined.
In My general opinion both books were
entertaining and a very interesting
view to past
lives that have suffered and have faced hardships that have no comparison.
Thank you for
giving me a change of what I read.
The Death of
Woman Wang
&
The book, The Death of Woman Wang is set
in a corner of northeast
China during the
seventeenth century, in a country called T'an-ch'eng. This book focuses
on average people
of China community. The farmers, their
wives, and other non
educated
people. The book was first published in
America in 1978 by Jonathan D.
Spence, who also
wrote Emperor of China. This book was
compiled from three sources.
The first is the
Local History of T'a-nch'eng, compiled in 1973, it told of the country's
history, location
and topography. The second is personal
memoir's of a scholar named
Huang
Lia-hung. It told of his life as an
official in the mid 1600's. The third
was the
work of a short
story writer named P'u Sung-ling, who told of the hostility and misery of
the country. Reading this book was new to me because I had
never heard exactly how the
woman was treated
in Chinese civilization. It seamed
fairly ruff but in its own way it was
almost the same
in the rest of the world at that time "give or take a few small
details". It
was a good book
but some times took a few cycles of reading through to get the part you
were looking
for.
The role of men and women of the
sixteenth century are defined in this
book, a few of
these examples are. On page nineteen
were a man refers to the way that
married and
unmarried girls should not stroll by the river or ride up the hill in a
carriage,
but how they
should stay home and raise the children.
It also refers to how men often
rented out their
wives for money. On page sixty three it tells of how a man let his wife
take over the
family business for six months, and when the tax collector came to gather
the tax he told
here that a smart woman was no match for a stupid man. On page eighty
two it tells a
story of how a man was gambling and when he ran out of money he put his
wife up for the
bet and lost. When a year had passed and
he had still not paid his debt so
the people took
his wife.
On
page ninety nine and one hundred it tells almost like a manual of what
women are bonded
to do, to be loyal and women like. It starts out by saying that a few of
the
characteristics that women should have, like chastity, courage, tenacity, and
death if
necessary when
the husband dies to prevent rape. Out of
fifteen women thirteen of them
had committed
suicide to save face.
About only right that I found in this
book that women have is on page
seventy two and
seventy three, If the husband dies and
he has a business she may inherit
it only if she
has a son but when the son is old enough to run it she must hand it over to
him.
This book also tells of how families
acted and how children were raised
also of how they
were treated. It also refers to how only boys go to school to get an
education. On
page seventy eight and seventy nine it tells of how married life was for P'u
Sung-ling and how
his children acted. In one instance it
tells of how he was engaged
when he was only
ten year's old , they were married when they were twelve and had a
son. The son was very wild in school and in public
the only one that he would listen to
was his
mother. But as soon as she left he would
act up again. In one instance the next
door neighbor was
yelling so loud that it disturbed the whole neighborhood. So he
crawled over the
fence and cut off here nose, ears, and toung and left the woman to die.
The people of the farming working class
had hardships in ways that was
painful. First of all the famine was bad when the crop
wouldn't make enough to pay the
taxes there
wasn't food and sometimes had to move in
order to escape the taxes that they
could not
pay. On page thirty six it tells of how
the tax's were set up, the heaviest was
when they
harvested and it declined to winter when they didn't have to pay taxes. These
taxes were a
quota that every Chinese city had to pay to Peking.
The book The Classic Slum was Written by
Robert Roberts and was first
published in
1971. Roberts was born in a Salford slum
in 1905. His parents owned a
corner shop and
after school he was an engineer apprentice for seven years, he focused to
writing which won
him many scholarships and awards, he has two other books called
Imprisoned
Tongues and A Ragged Schooling. This
book depicts life in a slum in Britain
in the year 1914 and shows us how bad the
hardships were. It shows us how bad the
poverty was along
with the Illiteracy and crime. Reading
this book made me think of
how my great
grandfather might have felt as he struggled to survive and put food on his
families
table. This book was also an inspiration
to me as I learned how bad the lower
class people of
this time had it and how the hole family would work all day and still
struggle to feed
themselves and put clothes on their backs.
This book depicts the poverty of this era
and here are a few passages that
illustrate theses
words. On page eighteen it shows just
how low of a class these people
were, your
average industry worker would make L70
a year were as your average
middle class
worker would make L340 a year.
On page thirty three it tells of how
Clothing clubs exist so you could go in
and pay for the
clothing check at a time like buying a new car.
It also tells of how people
would take
advantage of this system by taking the cloths then selling them to a neighbor
for half face
value and have enough over to get drunk on.
On page seventy five it tells of
how some of the
people were to poor to buy clothes at the poor cloths shop also it tells of
how one in four
homes in Britain lacked the bare necessities for life in there home. It
also tells of the
common things used for heat to include an open flame or buy stealing
coal or by dragging
the canals for droppings. On page thirty
six they refer to furniture as
if today like a
new Jaguar it was so expensive that only the middle class and upper class
had it.
Food and drink was also a very hard
choice here are a few examples that
the people had
never enough. On page fifteen they refer
to a grocery store as a gold
mine. And on page one twelve it tells that in 1904
that one in six babies die in the first
six months from
malnutrition. And on page one eighty
seven it tells of how when the war
broke out
that many men were denied to enter the
army because of malnutrition bad
teeth, bones and
not big enough. The few that got in came
back for leave and their
parents could
hardly recognize them strong, big and healthy.
The milk was either bought in the store or by
dairy men vendors in the
street and the
last inch of milk was gray from the dirt.
The vendors would put
formaldehyde in
the milk to keep it from spoiling so fast, even thought it caused intestinal
problems, so the
practice of selling milk in the street was banned in 1901.
On page one twelve it tells of the table
place of the poor and how they
bought there eggs
form vendors that were almost always bad or broke but in the eyes of
the poor nothing
was bad nothing could be considered bad beer, egg, milk, bread ect. The
percent of
inmates in prison that were Illiterate
grew from 1835 from 10% to 80% in
1904 on page
sixty nine. On page one twenty it says
that men considered pop to be a
woman and child
drink , that men only drink beer and
that beer is a mans food one man
was considered to
seldom drink less than four quarts a day.
The family would work all
week to buy food
for themselves and then on Saturday night the husband would take what
was left over and
spend it at the bar to bask away the reality of the pressures of famine.
Woman of this time were treated as
cookers, workers, mothers and wives.
They had no power
at the local government, but sometimes did concede in some of the
decisions of the
house.
In my conclusion of the two book's I see
socio-economic layers that
continue to this
day. Every social environment has the
rich the poor and the barriers that
separate
them. In the The Death of Woman Wang the
female is considered less
valuable then in
The Classic Slum. They both depict
severe discrimination in part of the
female but you
can see the differences . Like in the
The Death of Woman Wang the
woman has
inheritance rights but only if she has children to secede her, but in The
Classic Slum the
woman has extensive inheritance rights.
The books are both sided in
the part of
poverty they both have it and yet the male drinks and gambles the precious
money away. Education is more stressed in the book The
Death of Woman Wang even
poor fathers that
could not afford to send there children to school taught them at home.
But in The
Classic Slum the children are regarded to have more of an obligation to work
than to go to
school and learn.
The taxes are a major role in the poverty
situation in The Death of
Woman Wang but the low wages are a factor in the book
The Classic Slum.
Malnutrition
plays a factor in The Classic Slum but the food factor is not as great in The
Death of Woman
Wang. The respect that a widow has on
here dead husband is in no
way the same
effect that the widow has on here dead husband in The Death of Woman
Wang. The Classic Slums wife would just remarry of
get a divorce to solve the problem,
but in The Death
of Woman Wang the woman would commit
suicide to save here
name. In the Classic Slum the man would borrow
money on the wives name so that if he
couldn't pay it
back only her name would be ruined.
In My general opinion both books were
entertaining and a very interesting
view to past
lives that have suffered and have faced hardships that have no comparison.
Thank you for
giving me a change of what I read.
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