Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990sStanford University Press, 2007 - 520 pages This monumental work provides a new perspective on the historical significance of famines in China over the past three hundred years. It examines the relationship between the interventionist state policies of the eighteenth-century Qing emperors (“the golden age of famine relief”), the environmental and political crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (when China was called “the Land of Famine”), and the ambitions of the Mao era (which tragically led to the greatest famine in human history). In addition to a wide array of documentary sources, the book employs quantitative analysis to measure the economic impact of natural crises, state policies, and markets. In this way, the theories of Qing statesmen that have received much attention in recent scholarship are linked to actual practices and outcomes. Using the Zhili-Hebei region as its focus, the book also reveals the unusual role played by the institutions and policies designed to ensure food security for the capital, Beijing. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
HEAVEN EARTH AND MAN IN NORTH CHINA | 13 |
I | 22 |
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agricultural Baoding beans Beijing Bureaucracy capital cash Chapter Chen Chinese cotton counties crises crisis crops Daoguang dikes disaster districts drought economic eighteenth century emperor famine relief Fang Guancheng Fengtian figures flood gaoliang gazetteer governor-general grain prices grain tribute granaries Grand Canal Hai River harvest HDSL Hebei Henan households hunger Ibid imperial important JFSLSA JFTZ Jiaqing Jifu Kangxi land Li Hongzhang Lower Yangzi merchants millet millet prices million shi Ming month mortality nineteenth century North China NZZJ officials peasants percent pingtiao poor population Prefecture purchase Qianlong Qing period rainfall region reported rice river conservancy rural Shandong Shanxi sheng shi of grain shuili Shuntian silver sorghum soup kitchens taels Tianjin tion Tongzhou trend villages Wang Wen'an wheat wheat prices xian Xuanhua XYGZJS Yellow River Yongding River Yongzheng yuan Zhang Zhengding Zhili Zhili Province Zhongguo ZPZZ