Famine in China and the Missionary : : Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884 /

Famine in China and the Missionary : : Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884 / / Paul Richard Bohr.

The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the...

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 48
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Bohr, Paul Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 1972.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 1972.
Year of Publication:1972
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Timothy Richard: Background and Early Thought, 1845-1876
  • Dimensions of the Great Famine
  • Government Relief Efforts
  • Western Relief Efforts: Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator
  • After the Famine: Ch'ing Policies of Rehabilitation and Richard's Early Views of Reform
  • Richard's Early Reform Proposals in Chinese Perspective
  • List of Gazetteers Containing Information Regarding Famine Conditions and Government Relief Operations in Shansi
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs.

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