Wenchuan earthquake, 2008

Jianchuan museum, Wenchuan earthquake mural 2008

…Youth League (CYL) and so-called GONGOs such as the Chinese Red Cross sent supplies and search-and-rescue teams, and mobilized volunteers and funds through their national networks. A week after the…

汶川大地震, 2008

Jianchuan museum, Wenchuan earthquake mural 2008

…quiz competitions”. China Media Project blog. May 12. <http://cmp.hku.hk/2009/05/12/1608/>. [Accessed January 27, 2016.] For example, Beichuan suffered from M 6.2 earthquake in 1958 and in 1976 quakes took place at…

North China famine, 1876-79

Cannibalism China Famine Shanxi 1876

…as possible keys to understanding why China fell behind the West during the nineteenth-century, and why late-Qing efforts to “modernize” come to naught. Historian Xia Mingfang, for example, asserts that…

Central China flood, 1931

Yangzi Dykes Breaking Flood 1931

…of their natural and social environments. Those who lived in rural areas foraged for wild wetland food, including aquatic plants, fish, and waterfowl. [40] Refugees who headed to cities earned…

華北饑荒,1876-79

Cannibalism China Famine Shanxi 1876

…chapter 6; Andrea Janku, “The North-China Famine of 1876-1879: Performance and Impact of a Non-Event,” 2001 online publication. [19] Henrietta Harrison,“Newspapers and Nationalism in Rural China, 1890-1929,” Past and Present…

华北饥荒,1876-79

Cannibalism China Famine Shanxi 1876

…Asian and Arabian Monsoons that provide rainfall for North China and North Africa. (Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts). [10] Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke, Dry Spells: State Rainmaking and Local Governance in Late Imperial…

大躍進饑荒, 1958-62 (都市觀點)

Standing on Grain Propaganda 1959

…Chinese Communist Leadership. Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, China Research Monographs, University of California Bramall, Chris (2011). Agency and Famine in China’s Sichuan Province, 1958‒1962. The China Quarterly 208, 990‒1008…