19th century china
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Author_Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
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chinese history
communist countries
cultural responses to trauma
drought and famine
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history of china
horrific famine
multi-layered history
national crisis
natural disasters in china
new source materials
oral accounts
oral history
poems
poetry
shanxi provience
songs
worlds worst famine
Product details
- ISBN 9780520253025
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University.
