The Meanings in Micro History -- An Analysis of Wang Shi's Death from the Traumatic Perspective

Abstract

The Death of Wang is the work of the American Sinologist Shi Jingqian. Explore the living environment and imagination space of the bottom people in the early Qing Dynasty, focus on the case study of the characters, see the big from the small, from the macro world to the contrast between Chinese and Western cultures, shift the focus to the lives of farmers and rural women in remote villages, combine the virtual and the real, and bring literary imagination into the dream, from a variety of perspectives of reality and fiction. Let readers feel the living environment at that time to the greatest extent. From the tragic fate of "Mrs Wang", we can touch on the thinking of the historical environment at that time.