Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s / Lillian M. Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Lillian M., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines--China--History.

Famines.

Disaster relief--China--History.

Disaster relief.

Economic conditions.

History.

China--Economic conditions--History.

China.

Hebei Sheng (China)--Economic conditions--History.

Hebei Sheng (China).

Physical Description:

xix, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This monumental work provides a new perspective on the changing historical significance of famines in China over the last three centuries by examining the relationship between state policies, natural crises, economic change, and ideological imperatives.

Contents:

Introduction

"Heaven, earth, and man" in North China

Managing the rivers : emperors as engineers

Population, agriculture, and food

Food and prices

Provisioning Beijing

Storing grain : granaries as solution and problem

Markets and prices

Famine relief : the High Qing model

Famine relief : nineteenth-century devolution

The "land of famine", 1900-1949

Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949

Food and famine under Socialist rule, 1949-1990s

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-506) and index.

ISBN:

9780804753043

0804753040

OCLC:

76416553