{"product_id":"fighting-famine-in-north-china-9780804771818","title":"Fighting Famine in North China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis monumental work provides a new perspective on the changing historical significance of famines in China over the last three centuries by examining the relationship between state policies, natural crises, economic change, and ideological imperatives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Li's book makes an important contribution to the study of famine and Chinese economic history . . . Li's work is truly monumental for the study of China's famine and famine fighting.\"—Yixin Chen, \u003ci\u003eChinese Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Li's work deserves the serious attention of those who are interested in understanding how emperors, leaders, and civil societies in China, especially in North China, have dealt with natural catastrophes and famines in the last three hundred years . . . [T]he book provides a comprehensive examination on factors that might have contributed to food shortage or famine during the long period from the 1690s ti the 1990s.\"—Guanzhong James Wen, \u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an extraordinary monograph, one that will long remain the definitive account of a most challenging issue—the long-term problem of human sustenance on the northeast China plain.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this long-awaited book Lillian Li offers us a masterful account of three centuries of environmental and socio-economic history in one of the core regions of China Li's achievement is especially noteworthy when we consider the multiplicity of variables she addresses with equal thoroughness and clarity and combines into a convincing narrative of ever-mounting problems and tensions. Certainly Li's monumental work is a must-read for present-day planners and decision-makers.\"—\u003ci\u003eEH.NET\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"People have been looking forward to this book for a long time; the wait was worth it. Lillian Li's \u003ci\u003eFighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s\u003c\/i\u003e is as close to a definitive account of efforts to prevent and relieve famine in North China as we are likely to get for quite some time It goes well beyond the mid-Qing to consider both the century of North China's worst famines and the efforts of the last few decades that seem, for now, to have banished famine from China.\"—\u003ci\u003eHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Li's new study goes beyond both, drawing on far more archival sources; this time especially significant in her examination and use of price data. She also demonstrates greater attentiveness to local, regional and empire-wide grain markets, climate and environmental history, and the local economy The book is too comprehensive to do it justice in a review.\"—Christopher M. Isett, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\"Li's examination of the economic and political history of famines in North China exemplifies the possibilities for quantitative and economic histories of China's last dynasty . . . Li's findings provide an important addition to the debate over the development of the market economy in China during the last dynasty.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:List of Tables\tiii  List of Illustrations\tiii  Acknowledgments\tiii  @toc2:Introduction\t1  Chapter 1: \"Heaven, Earth, and Man\" in North China\t000  \t@toc3:History of the Hai River System\t000  \tThe Hai River Basin of North China\t000  \tClimate of the Hai River Basin\t000  \tHistorical Climate\t000  \tFloods, Droughts, and Disasters\t000  \tLocal Records and Social Consequences\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 2. Managing the Rivers: Emperors as Engineers  \t000  \t@toc3:Kangxi and the Yongding River\t000  \tYongzheng, Prince Yi, and a Comprehensive Plan\t000  \tQianlong and Routinization\t000  \tJiaqing: Heroic Hydraulics\t000  \tDaoguang: Earnest Efforts\t000  \tFin-de-siecle Floods\t000  \tLocal Initiatives\t000  \tEmperors, Bureaucrats, and Ecology\t000  @toc2:Chapter 3. Population, Agriculture, and Food\t000  \t@toc3:Population and Land\t000  \tLand and Agriculture Under Manchu Rule\t000  \tAgriculture: Grains and Other Crops\t000  \tCropping Patterns and Yields\t000  \tDiet and Standard of Living\t000  \tNot Quite a Malthusian Tale\t000  @toc2:Chapter 4. Food and Prices\t000  \t@toc3:Long-Term Price Trends\t000  \tMulticropping and Seasonality\t000  \tNatural Crises and Harvests\t000  \tThe Copper Coin-Silver Exchange Rate\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 5. Provisioning Beijing\t000  \t@toc3:Beijing and Grain Tribute\t000  \tGrain Stipends: Distribution, Timing, and Sales\t000  \tPingtiao and the Beijing Market\t000  \tSocial Unrest, Pingtiao, and Soup Kitchens\t000  \tMarkets, Merchants, and Gendarmerie\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2: Chapter 6. Storing Grain: Granaries as Solution and   Problem\t000  \t@toc3:Granaries in Chinese History\t000  \tKangxi-Yongzheng Origins\t000  \tEver-Normal Granaries in the Qianlong Period\t000  \tEver-Normal Granaries in the Jiaqing and Daoguang   Periods\t000  \tCommunity and Charity Granaries\t000  \tExternal Grain Supplies\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 7. Markets and Prices\t000  \t@toc3:Market Integration Within Zhili\t000  \tPrice Integration with Other Regions\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 8. Famine Relief: The High Qing Model\t000  \t@toc3:Famine Investigation\t000  \tGeneral Relief\t000  \tGrain Versus Cash\/Millet Versus Sorghum\t000  \tSoup Kitchens\t000  \tPingtiao\t000  \tTax Remissions\t000  \tShelters and Famine Refugees\t000  \t17431744: Famine Relief Model\t000  \t1759: Disaster Without Relief\t000  \t17611763 and Later: Relief With and Without   \tDisaster\t000  \tOverall Evaluation\t000  @toc2:Chapter 9. Famine Relief: Nineteenth-Century   Devolution\t000  \t@toc3:The 1801 Flood\t000  \tThe 18131814 Crisis\t000  \tDaoguang Crises and Corruption\t000  \tMidcentury Political Crisis\t000  \tThe 18711872 Floods and the Li Hongzhang Era\t000  \tThe 18761879 North China Famine\t000  \tThe 18901895 Floods\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 10. The \"Land of Famine,\" 19001949\t000  \t@toc3:1917 and Later Floods\t000  \tThe 19201921 Drought and International Aid\t000  \tThe 19281930 North China Drought and National   Crisis\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 11. Rural Crisis and Economic Change, 1900\u0026lt;-  \u0026gt;1949\t000  \t@toc3:Famine and Poverty\t000  \tChanges in the Economy\t000  \tLocal Experiences\t000  \tEconomic Trends\t000  \tJapanese Aggression, Communist Insurgency, and Rural   \tPoverty\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Chapter 12. Food and Famine Under Socialist Rule,   19491990s\t000  \t@toc3:Population, Agriculture, and Grain in Hebei\t000  \tSocialism and Subsistence in Hebei, 19491958 and   Beyond\t000  \tThe Great Leap Famine, 19581961\t000  \tControlling Nature\t000  \tUnleashing the Market\t000  \tRegulating the Grain Market\t000  \tConclusion\t000  @toc2:Conclusion\t000  @toc4:Reign Periods of the Qing Dynasty (16441911) and   Use of Dates\t000  Weights and Measures\t000  Glossary (Chinese Characters)\t000  @toc4:Appendices\t000  \t@toc3:Appendix 1: Prefectures and Counties in Zhili   Province in Qing Period\t000  \tAppendix 2: Data\t000  \tAppendix 3: Quantitative Methods\t000  @toc4:Abbreviations Used in Notes\t000  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Gazetteers List\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405590274391,"sku":"9780804771818","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804771818.jpg?v=1730492934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fighting-famine-in-north-china-9780804771818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}