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Author Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-

Title Tears from iron [electronic resource] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac O Grada.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxiii, 332 p. : ill., maps.
Series Asia : local studies/global themes ; 15
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century.
China -- Social conditions -- 1644-1912.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520934221 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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