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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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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