Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s

by Lillian M. Li

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804771812
• ISBN13: 9780804771818
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 9.8"