Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn,  1970- <br/><br/>
Tears from iron  cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /  [electronic resource] : 
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2008. 
 - xxiii, 332 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - Asia : local studies/global themes ;  15 .
 - Asia--local studies/global themes ;  15. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Famines--History--China--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Social conditions--1644-1912.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC430.F3  / E34 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.80951/09034