Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes): 15

by KEdgerton-Tarple (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $98.20

  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 window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. This book presents the history of a horrific famine that took place and focuses on cultural responses to trauma.