Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xxiii, 332, £23.95, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-520-25302-5).

Andrea Janku

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Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xxiii, 332, £23.95, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-520-25302-5).

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Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2008, pp. xxiii, 332, £23.95, $39.95 (hardback 978-0-520-25302-5).

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