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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Famine Relief in Warlord China
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Weights, Mea sures, and Currency
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Relieving Beijing
- 1 War in July
- 2 Municipal Relief
- 3 Military Men
- 4 Cigarettes, Opera, and Religious Sects
- 5 City Charities and the Countryside
- II. The Famine Field
- 6 Village Mutual Aid
- 7 Bureaucratic Relief
- 8 Migrant Routes
- 9 Manchurian Relief
- 10 International Relief
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Toilet General
- Appendix: The Nankai Camp, Tianjin
- Chinese Characters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index