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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bohr, Paul Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1972.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 48.
Temas:
Richard, Timothy, > 1845-1919.
Famines > China.
Food relief > China.
Famines > Chine.
Aide alimentaire > Chine.
Famines.
Food relief.
Hongersnood.
Hulpverlening.
Hervormingen.
China.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Timothy Richard: Background and Early Thought, 1845-1876
  • Dimensions of the Great Famine
  • Government Relief Efforts
  • Western Relief Efforts: Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator
  • After the Famine: Ch'ing Policies of Rehabilitation and Richard's Early Views of Reform
  • Richard's Early Reform Proposals in Chinese Perspective
  • List of Gazetteers Containing Information Regarding Famine Conditions and Government Relief Operations in Shansi
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs.

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