Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China

Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.

Author/creator	Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press,
Description	xxiii, 332 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Famines--China --History --19th century. China--Social conditions --1644-1912.

Series	Asia : local studies/global themes ; 15
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2007040156
ISBN	9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper)

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