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Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s
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Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s / Lillian M. Li.
ISBN
9780804753043 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804753040 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xix, 520 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 25, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-506) and index.
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.
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