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Famine Relief in Warlord China
Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. In 1920-1921, drought and ensuing famine devastated more than 300 counties in five northern provinces, leading to some 500,000 deaths. Long credited...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
BRILL,
2019.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian Monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. In 1920-1921, drought and ensuing famine devastated more than 300 counties in five northern provinces, leading to some 500,000 deaths. Long credited to international intervention, the relief effort, Pierre Fuller shows, actually began from within Chinese social circles. Indigenous action from the household to th. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (368 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9781684176021 1684176026 |