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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 |
| 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 |
| Subjects |
| 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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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |