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

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nExplanation of Commonly Used Chinese Terms\nAcknowledgments\nForeword\nIntroduction\nPart I. Setting the Scene\n1. Shanxi, Greater China, and the Famine\n2. Experiencing the Famine: The Hierarchy of Suffering in a Famine Song from Xiezhou\nPart II. Praise and Blame: Interpretive Frameworks of Famine Causation\nIntroduction\n3. The Wrath of Heaven versus Human Greed\n4. Qing Officialdom and the Politics of Famine\n5. Views from the Outside: Science, Railroads, and Laissez-Faire Economics\n6. Hybrid Voices: The Famine and Jiangnan Activism\nPart III. Icons of Starvation: Images, Myths, and Illusions\nIntroduction\n7. Family and Gender in Famine\n8. The “Feminization of Famine” and the Feminization of Nationalism\n9. Eating Culture: Cannibalism and the Semiotics of Starvation, 1870–2001\nEpilogue: New Tears for New Times; The Famine Revisited\nGlossary of Chinese Characters\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex