Famine Relief in Warlord China

by Pierre Fuller

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674241142
• ISBN13: 9780674241145
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"