Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac O Grada.
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| Superior document: | Asia : local studies/global themes ; 15 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 332 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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.