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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.
Price: $85.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Publication Date:
02 April 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520253025
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
“Very inspiring and reaching well beyond the scope of the research.”
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University.
List of Illustrations
Explanation of Commonly Used Chinese Terms
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda
Introduction
part i . Setting the Scene
1. Shanxi, Greater China, and the Famine
2. Experiencing the Famine: The Hierarchy of Suffering in a Famine Song from Xiezhou
part ii . Praise and Blame: Interpretive Frameworks of Famine Causation
3. The Wrath of Heaven versus Human Greed
4. Qing Officialdom and the Politics of Famine
5. Views from the Outside: Science, Railroads, and Laissez-Faire Economics
6. Hybrid Voices: The Famine and Jiangnan Activism
part iii . Icons of Starvation: Images, Myths, and Illusions
7. Family and Gender in Famine
8. The “Feminization of Famine” and the Feminization of Nationalism
9. Eating Culture: Cannibalism and the Semiotics of Starvation, 1870–2001
Epilogue. New Tears for New Times: The Famine Revisited
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Explanation of Commonly Used Chinese Terms
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda
Introduction
part i . Setting the Scene
1. Shanxi, Greater China, and the Famine
2. Experiencing the Famine: The Hierarchy of Suffering in a Famine Song from Xiezhou
part ii . Praise and Blame: Interpretive Frameworks of Famine Causation
3. The Wrath of Heaven versus Human Greed
4. Qing Officialdom and the Politics of Famine
5. Views from the Outside: Science, Railroads, and Laissez-Faire Economics
6. Hybrid Voices: The Famine and Jiangnan Activism
part iii . Icons of Starvation: Images, Myths, and Illusions
7. Family and Gender in Famine
8. The “Feminization of Famine” and the Feminization of Nationalism
9. Eating Culture: Cannibalism and the Semiotics of Starvation, 1870–2001
Epilogue. New Tears for New Times: The Famine Revisited
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index