Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
2008
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
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Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Description
xxiii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps.
Series
Asia--local studies/global themes ; 15.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.
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Language
English
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
ISBN
9780520253025 cloth alkaline paper
9780520934221 e-book
9780520934221 e-book
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