03984nam 2200817 a 450 991079018720332120230207214258.00-520-93422-910.1525/9780520934221(CKB)2670000000162541(EBL)1982563(SSID)ssj0000628789(PQKBManifestationID)11388850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628789(PQKBWorkID)10712058(PQKB)10360371(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055987(MiAaPQ)EBC1982563(DE-B1597)521102(OCoLC)808600810(DE-B1597)9780520934221(Au-PeEL)EBL1982563(CaPaEBR)ebr10676232(OCoLC)905985102(EXLCZ)99267000000016254120071010d2008 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrTears from iron[electronic resource] cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó GrádaBerkeley University of California Press20081 online resource (360 p.)Asia : local studies/global themes ;15Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25302-7 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.This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870's remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.Asia--local studies/global themes ;15.FaminesChinaHistory19th centuryChinaSocial conditions1644-191219th century china.chinese history.communist countries.cultural responses to trauma.drought and famine.history of china.horrific famine.multi-layered history.national crisis.natural disasters in china.new source materials.oral accounts.oral history.poems.poetry.shanxi provience.songs.worlds worst famine.FaminesHistory363.80951/09034Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn1970-1462608MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790187203321Tears from iron3671638UNINA