LEADER 03407nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910462204103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93422-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520934221 035 $a(CKB)2670000000162541 035 $a(EBL)1982563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000628789 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11388850 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628789 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10712058 035 $a(PQKB)10360371 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1982563 035 $a(DE-B1597)521102 035 $a(OCoLC)808600810 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520934221 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1982563 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676232 035 $a(OCoLC)905985102 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000162541 100 $a20071010d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTears from iron$b[electronic resource] $ecultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /$fKathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac O? Gra?da 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 1 $aAsia : local studies/global themes ;$v15 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25302-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index. 327 $aShanxi, 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. 330 $aThis multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870's remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society. 410 0$aAsia--local studies/global themes ;$v15. 606 $aFamines$zChina$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1644-1912 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFamines$xHistory 676 $a363.80951/09034 700 $aEdgerton-Tarpley$b Kathryn$f1970-$01051499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462204103321 996 $aTears from iron$92482035 997 $aUNINA