Tears from Iron

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-Tarp...