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Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s
- Title
- Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s / Lillian M. Li.
- Author
- Li, Lillian M., 1943-
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xix, 520 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-506) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- "Heaven, earth, and man" in North China -- Managing the rivers : emperors as engineers -- Population, agriculture, and food -- Food and prices -- Provisioning Beijing -- Storing grain : granaries as solution and problem -- Markets and prices -- Famine relief : the High Qing model -- Famine relief : nineteenth-century devolution -- The "land of famine", 1900-1949 -- Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949 -- Food and famine under Socialist rule, 1949-1990s -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFF 07-691
- ISBN
- 9780804753043 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804753040 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006037715
- OCLC
- 76416553
- Author
- Li, Lillian M., 1943-
- Title
- Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s / Lillian M. Li.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-506) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFF 07-691