Summary of "The Death of Woman Wang" and "The Classic Slum" 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 to