Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s /
Li, Lillian M.,1943-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-506) and index.
"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 -- The "land of famine", 1900-1949 -- Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949 -- Food and famine under socialist rule, 1949-1990s.
Famines
Disaster relief