Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China
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- ISBN: 0520253027 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper)
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xxiii, 332 p. : ill., maps. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2008.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Cormac O. Grada -- Pt. I. Setting the Scene -- 1. Shanxi, Greater China, and the Famine -- 2. Experiencing the Famine: The Hierarchy of Suffering in a Famine Song from Xiezhou -- Pt. II. Praise and Blame: Interpretive Frameworks of Famine Causation -- 3. The Wrath of Heaven versus Human Greed -- 4. Qing Officialdom and the Politics of Famine -- 5. Views from the Outside: Science, Railroads, and Laissez-Faire Economics -- 6. Hybrid Voices: The Famine and Jiangnan Activism -- Pt. III. Icons of Starvation: Images, Myths, and Illusions -- 7. Family and Gender in Famine -- 8. The "Feminization of Famine" and the Feminization of Nationalism -- 9. Eating Culture: Cannibalism and the Semiotics of Starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue: New Tears for New Times; The Famine Revisited. |
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Subject: | Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century China -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | HC 430 F3 E34 2008 (Text) | 26040002849079 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |