Tears from iron [electronic resource] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac �O Gr�ada.
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BookSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 15.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.Description: xxiii, 332 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 363.80951/09034 22
- HC430.F3 E34 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.
Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited.
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