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Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China
Title
Tears from iron [electronic resource] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
ISBN
9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520934221 (e-book)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xxiii, 332 p. : ill., maps.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2014
Series
Asia : local studies/global themes ; 15
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.
Contents
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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