Tears from iron
Subtitle: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China
By: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Series: Asia : local studies/global themes -- 15
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780520253025
Subjects: Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century; China -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shanxi, greater China, and the famine; title: Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou; title: The wrath of heaven versus human greed; title: Qing officialdom and the politics of famine; title: Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics; title: Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism; title: Family and gender in famine; title: The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism; title: Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001; title: Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited.