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Tears from iron

by Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Asia : local studies/global themes ; . 15 Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: xxiii, 332 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century. | China -- Social conditions -- 1644-1912. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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