Author: Pierre Fuller
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Famine Relief in Warlord China
Author: Pierre Fuller
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
The Famine in China
Author: China Famine Relief Fund (London)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The North China Famine of 1920-1921, with Special Reference to the West Chihli Area
Author: Peking United International Famine Relief Committee
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Report of the China Famine Relief, American Red Cross, October 1920 - September 1921
Author: American National Red Cross. China Famine Relief
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The History of Famine Relief in China
Author: Yunte Deng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
The first English translation of Deng Yunte's study of famine relief throughout the history of China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
The first English translation of Deng Yunte's study of famine relief throughout the history of China.
A History of the China International Famine Relief Commission
Author: Andrew Nathan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Provides a history of the China International Famine Relief Commission, an organization of western residents, particularly missionaries, in China that assisted the victims of famines that persisted in North China.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Provides a history of the China International Famine Relief Commission, an organization of western residents, particularly missionaries, in China that assisted the victims of famines that persisted in North China.
China Famine Relief
Author: China International Famine Relief Commission. National Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publication. Series B [English]
Author: China International Famine Relief Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Famine in China and the Missionary
Author: Paul Richard Bohr
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.
American Red Cross Famine Relief in China, 1920-1921
Author: American National Red Cross
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description