Family and gender in famine: Cultural responses to disaster in North China, 1876-1879
Family and gender in famine: Cultural responses to disaster in North China, 1876-1879
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DOI：
10.1353/jowh.2004.0079
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
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0.3
通讯作者：
Edgerton-Tarpley, K
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作者：
Edgerton-Tarpley, K
当地男性文人用意象来描述1876年至1879年的北方中国饥荒，展示了儒家理想和中国帝国晚期的家庭制度应该如何塑造饥荒强加给女性的道德困境。关于饥荒的地方性中文文本将年轻的妻子和女儿置于灾难期间身体、道德和性方面的危险境地，但将年迈的母亲描绘成对家庭日益减少的食物供应有强烈要求的人。然而，关于饥荒和性别的人口统计学研究以及外国观察家的观察，质疑了中国家庭在分配饥饿家庭的食物供应时歧视年轻女性的假设。他们进一步指出，在某些情况下，蓬勃发展的妇女贸易使年轻妇女比男子更成功地从灾难中幸存下来。这篇文章为正在进行的关于“饥荒女性化”的对话增加了一个地方性的中国视角。
Imagery used by male local literati to describe the North China Famine of 1876-1879 demonstrates how Confucian ideals and the Chinese family system in the late imperial era should have shaped the moral dilemmas that famine imposed upon women. Local-level Chinese texts about famine place young wives and daughters in physically, morally, and sexually precarious positions during the disaster, but depict elderly mothers as persons with strong claims to a family's dwindling food supply. Demographic studies of famine and gender and observations made by foreign observers, however, call into question the assumption that Chinese families discriminated against young women when dividing a famished household's food supply. They further suggest that the burgeoning trade in women in some cases enabled young women to survive the disaster more successfully than their male counterparts. This article adds a local-level Chinese perspective to the ongoing dialogue on the "feminization of famine.".