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Tears from Iron : Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes SeriesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520934221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tears from IronLOC classification:
  • HC430.F3 -- E34 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Explanation of Commonly Used Chinese Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Explanation of Commonly Used Chinese Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.

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