02102nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10676232 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 071010s2008 cauab sb 001 0 eng d 2007040156 9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520934221 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)808600810 a-cc--- HC430.F3 E34 2008eb 363.80951/09034 22 Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, 1970- Tears from iron [electronic resource] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac �O Gr�ada. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008. xxiii, 332 p. : ill., maps. Asia : local studies/global themes ; 15 Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Famines China History 19th century. China Social conditions 1644-1912. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Asia--local studies/global themes ; 15. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10676232 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 58611 58611