SOURCES | CREDITS
SOURCES
Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn. Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to
Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (University of California Press,
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2008).
Legge, James and The Committee of the China Famine Relief Fund. The
Famine in China: Illustrations by a Native Artist with a Translation
of the Chinese Text (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878).
IMAGE CREDITS
The images from The Famine in China were provided by Yale Divinity
Library, New Haven, Connecticut
The additional illustrations in the essay provided by the author are
from a compilation titled Qi Yu Jin Zhi zhenjuan zhengin lu that is
held in the historical documents room in the Shanghai Library. These
illustrations include:
“Si sheng gao zai tu qi,” shou juan (Pictures reporting the disaster
in the four provinces, opening volume), 14a, in Qi Yu Jin Zhi zhenjuan
zhengxin lu (Statement of accounts for relief contributions for
Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Zhili) (n.p., 1881).
Image 005. Wild Goose Pagoda for Shandong Relief—“To save one
person’s life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.” In “Si
sheng gao zai tu qi,” 3a.
Image 006. Philanthropists Rewarded—“On the good who open their
purses all the spiritual powers bestow blessing.” In “Si sheng gao zai
tu qi,” 19a.
Image 007. An Impossible Choice—“A hungry parent is dying: about
to kill the daughter, the knife falls.” In “Si sheng gao zai tu qi,”
25a.
Image 008. Suicide of Famine Victims—“Driven by hunger and cold,
they hang themselves from a beam or throw themselves in a river.” In
“Si sheng gao zai tu qi,” 12a.
Image 009. A Wife is Sold—“Women are sold: They despair of coming
back alive.” In “Si sheng gao zai tu qi,” 30a.
Image 010. Beaten Along the Way—“Weeping bitterly while thinking of
home, beaten on the way.” In “Si sheng gao zai tu qi,” 32a.
Image 011. Already Killed and Cooked—“[He] brings money to redeem
life; [she has] already been slaughtered and cooked.” In “Si sheng
gao zai tu qi,” 26a.
Image 012. People Eating People—“Starved corpses fill the road;
people vie to slice them up.” In “Si sheng gao zai tu qi,” 13a.
Image 013. Famine Orphans Lured to Their Deaths—“On the roads
orphans are lured to their death in the dark of night.” In “Si sheng
gao zai tu qi,” 24a.
CREDITS
“Pictures to Draw Tears from Iron” was developed by
Visualizing Cultures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and presented on MIT OpenCourseWare.
MIT Visualizing Cultures: John
W. Dower
Project Director
Emeritus Professor of History
Shigeru Miyagawa
Project Director
Professor of Linguistics
Kochi Prefecture-John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and
Culture
Ellen Sebring
Creative Director
Scott Shunk
Program Director
Andrew Burstein
Media designer
In collaboration with:
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Professor
Department of History
San Diego State University
Author, essay
SUPPORT MIT Visualizing Cultures received generous funding from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, the Getty Foundation, Japan Foundation's
Council for Global Partnership, National Endowment for the Humanities, and MIT's
d'Arbeloff Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education and MIT Microsoft-funded
iCampus project.
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