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Libri antichi e moderni

Edgerton Tarpley Kathryn

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

University of Callifornia 2008,

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Autore
Edgerton Tarpley Kathryn
Editori
University of Callifornia 2008
Soggetto
CINA China Chine
Descrizione
New
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.338. 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.