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Tears from Iron - Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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Tears from Iron - Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 15
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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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