Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
15. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /