Abstract
List of Illustrations Explanation of Commonly Used Chinese Terms Acknowledgments Foreword by Cormac O Grada Introduction part i . Setting the Scene 1. Shanxi, Greater China, and the 2. Experiencing the Famine: The Hierarchy of Suffering in a Song from Xiezhou part ii . Praise and Blame: Interpretive Frameworks of Causation 3. The Wrath of Heaven versus Human Greed 4. Qing Officialdom and the Politics of 5. Views from the Outside: Science, Railroads, and Laissez-Faire Economics 6. Hybrid Voices: The and Jiangnan Activism part iii . Icons of Starvation: Images, Myths, and Illusions 7. Family and Gender in 8. The of Famine and the Feminization of Nationalism 9. Eating Culture: Cannibalism and the Semiotics of Starvation, 1870--2001 Epilogue. New Tears for New Times: The Revisited Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes Bibliography Index
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