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Famine in China and the missionary : Timothy Richard as relief administrator and advocate of national reform, 1876-1884 /
The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
East Asian Research Center, Harvard University,
1972.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
48. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary So. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275). |
| ISBN: | 9781684171798 1684171792 |