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

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2008, xxiii + 332 pp., illustrations. Compte-rendu de Pierre-Étienne  Will paru dans le dernier numéro de China Perspectives, 2010, 4. The “Incredible Famine of 1878-1879” (dingwu qihuang 丁戊奇荒),1 which devastated the northern provinces early in Emperor Guangxu’s reign, may be said to have been China’s first internationalised famine: it took place under other countries’ gaze, it was much reported in Europe, and within China...