Tears from Iron

Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Cormac Ó Gráda

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University of California Press
02 April 2008

Social & cultural history; Famine

Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

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.

By: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Foreword by: Cormac Ó Gráda
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 15
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780520253025
ISBN 10: 0520253027
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 02 April 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University.

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

Very inspiring and reaching well beyond the scope of the research. -- Dominique Tyl Chinese Cross Currents

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Tears from Iron

Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Cormac Ó Gráda

$140.95

Hardback

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

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