Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949

by Jiayan Zhang

Book Overview

The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774825960
• ISBN13: 9780774825962
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 292 Pages