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Lillian M. Li

Fighting Famine in North China

State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s

Lillian M. Li

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Stanford University Press
25 February 2010
Asian history; History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history; Famine
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 (which tragically led to the greatest famine in human history). In addition to a wide array of documentary sources, the book employs quantitative analysis to measure the economic impact of natural crises, state policies, and markets. In this way, the theories of Qing statesmen that have received much attention in recent scholarship are linked to actual practices and outcomes. Using the Zhili-Hebei region as its focus, the book also reveals the unusual role played by the institutions and policies designed to ensure food security for the capital, Beijing.
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Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   939g
ISBN:   9780804771818
ISBN 10:   0804771812
Pages:   544
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Lillian M. Li is Professor of History at Swarthmore College. She has previously published China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937 (1981) and coedited Chinese History in Economic Perspective (1992).

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

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. -CHOICE 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. -EH.NET People have been looking forward to this book for a long time; the wait was worth it. Lillian Li's Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s 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. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies


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