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Author : Walter Hampton Mallory
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005342147
Author : Seung-Joon Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804781763
A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce. Author Seung-joon Lee profiles Canton as an exemplary site of provisioning, a critical gateway for foreign rice importation and distribution through the Pearl River Delta, which found its prized import, and thus its food security, threatened by the rise of Chinese nationalism. Lee argues that the modern Chinese state's attempts to promote domestically-produced "national rice" and to tax rice imported through the transnational trade networks were doomed to failure, as a focus on rice production ignored the influential factor of rice quality. Indeed, China's domestic rice promotion program resulted in an unprecedented famine in Canton in 1936. This book contends that the ways in which the Guomindang government dealt with the issue of food security, and rice in particular, is best understood in the context of its preoccupation with science, technology, and progressivism, a departure from the conventional explanations that cite governmental incompetence.
Author : Walter H. Mallory,John H. Finley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459873317
Author : Lillian M. Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127481518
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.
Author : C J Barker
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781835740682
The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.
Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107071568
This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802779281
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Author : China Famine Relief Fund (London)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000625773
Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300206784
During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.
Author : Yunte Deng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479905
The first English translation of Deng Yunte's study of famine relief throughout the history of China.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : China
ISBN : UCBK:C052258132
Author : China International Famine Relief Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047569483
Author : Xun Zhou
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300175189
Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962, covering everything from cannibalism and selective killing to mass murder.
Author : Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0520934229
This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides a vivid window through which to study the social side of a nation's tragedy. Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley's original approach explores an array of new source materials, including songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, its epicenter. She juxtaposes these narratives with central government, treaty-port, and foreign debates over the meaning of the events and shows how the famine, which occurred during a period of deepening national crisis, elicited widely divergent reactions from different levels of Chinese society.
Author : Penny Kane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002260854
