Tears from Iron : Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China Hardback
by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Part of the Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes series
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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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- Pages:360 pages, 9 b-w photographs, 5 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2008
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- ISBN:9780520253025
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 9 b-w photographs, 5 maps
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2008
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- ISBN:9780520253025
