Tears from iron cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /

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Autor principal: Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Col·lecció:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 15.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.