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Famine Relief in Warlord China (Paperback)
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Famine Relief in Warlord China (Paperback)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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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 the national level, modeled after
Qing-era relief protocol, sustained the lives of millions of the
destitute in Beijing, in the surrounding districts of Zhili (Hebei)
Province, and along the migrant and refugee trail in Manchuria, all
before joint foreign-Chinese international relief groups became a
force of any significance. Using district gazetteers, stele
inscriptions, and the era's vibrant Chinese press, Fuller reveals
how a hybrid civic sphere of military authorities working with the
public mobilized aid and coordinated migrant movement within
stricken communities and across military domains. Ultimately, the
book's spotlight on disaster governance in northern China in 1920
offers new insights into the social landscape just before the
region's descent, over the next decade, into incessant warfare,
political struggle, and finally the normalization of disaster
itself.
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