Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China
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Main Author: Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2008
Series:Asia - local studies/global themes 15
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description: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
Physical Description:XXIII, 332 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm

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