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Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China /
This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-19th century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.