Famine Relief in Warlord China.
Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. In 1920-1921, drought and ensuing famine devastated more than 300 counties in five northern provinces, leading to some 500,000 deaths. Long credited...
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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; v.423 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : BRILL,, 2019. Ã2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Famine Relief in Warlord China
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Weights, Mea sures, and Currency
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Relieving Beijing
- 1 War in July
- 2 Municipal Relief
- 3 Military Men
- 4 Cigarettes, Opera, and Religious Sects
- 5 City Charities and the Countryside
- II. The Famine Field
- 6 Village Mutual Aid
- 7 Bureaucratic Relief
- 8 Migrant Routes
- 9 Manchurian Relief
- 10 International Relief
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Toilet General
- Appendix: The Nankai Camp, Tianjin
- Chinese Characters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.