02073nam a2200349 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003900112020002700151040002100178035002100199043001200220050002500232082002400257100003800281245017400319260005500493300003300548490004500581504006400626505058000690533015201270650004301422651004101465655002901506710001701535830004501552856012601597ebr10676232CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||071010s2008    cauab   sb    001 0 eng d  z  2007040156  z9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper)  z9780520934221 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)808600810  aa-cc---14aHC430.F3bE34 2008eb04a363.80951/090342221 aEdgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn,d1970-10aTears from ironh[electronic resource] :bcultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /cKathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac �O Gr�ada.  aBerkeley :bUniversity of California Press,c2008.  axxiii, 332 p. :bill., maps.1 aAsia : local studies/global themes ;v15  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.0 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aFamineszChinaxHistoryy19th century. 0aChinaxSocial conditionsy1644-1912. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc. 0aAsia--local studies/global themes ;v15.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10676232zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view