TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edgerton-Tarpley,Kathryn
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China 
T2  - Asia : local studies/global themes
AV  - HC430.F3 E34 2008eb
U1  - 363.80951/09034 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Famines
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1644-1912
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10676232
ER  -