Tears from iron: cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China

Shanxi, greater China, and the famine

Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou

The wrath of heaven versus human greed

Qing officialdom and the politics of famine

Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics

Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism

Family and gender in famine

The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism

Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001

Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited.