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001 2007040156
003 DLC
005 20081125083723.0
008 071010s2008 cauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007040156
020 $a9780520253025 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $aa-cc---
050 00 $aHC430.F3$bE34 2008
082 00 $a363.80951/09034$222
100 1 $aEdgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn,$d1970-
245 10 $aTears from iron :$bcultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /$cKathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c2008.
300 $axxiii, 332 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aAsia : local studies/global themes ;$v15
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.
505 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.
650 0 $aFamines$zChina$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1644-1912.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2007040156.html