Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China Volume 15

by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253027
• ISBN13: 9780520253025
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"