Tears from Iron

Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19909804
AutoresKathryn Edgerton-Tarpley (autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Páginas360
Data de publicação2019-12-31
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoTears from Iron (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520934221
OpenAlexW4237243284
Open LibraryOL29602999M
ISBN9780520934221
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12

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

Tears · Chinese history and philosophy · History of Emotions Research · Medicine · Surgery · Tree-ring climate responses · 19th century · china · Famines · History