Jiangsu-Anhui flood, 1911

…through other means. The Central China Famine Relief Committee, comprised of both Chinese and foreigners, was particularly active. In addition to saving lives, the Committee aimed to address the causes…

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唐山大地震，1976

Lauri Paltemaa

Tianjin Worker Hero Tangshan Earthquake Memorial 2012

…system was that most of its predictions were false and thus useless. [12] Tianjin tongzhi –Dizhenzhi. Tianjin: Tianjin Shehuikexueyuan chubanshe 1995, 269 [13] For different casualty counts see e.g. http://global.britannica.com/event/Tangshan-earthquake-of-1976….

Guangdong flood, 1885

Christopher Yien

…river waters rising and breaking the embankments was the greatest danger to human life but in the higher regions it was the force of the water rushing down the mountain…

海原(甘肅)大地震,1920

Pierre Fuller

…Chinese Loess Plateau in the Last 10,000 Years,” Mountain Research and Development 24/4 (2004), 342–3. [2] Li Tianchi, “Landslide Disasters and Human Responses in China,” Mountain Research and Development 14/4…

Yellow River flood, 1898

Daniel Stone

…official Li Hongzhang was sent by the Empress Dowager to devise ways to prevent further flooding, suggesting the crisis had come to a close, but the effects of the flood…

Hunan famine, 1921

Pan Miqi

…only an extreme case, robberies which made “no shop dare to open and no peasants dare to farm” all over the province[10]did disrupt local agricultural production and commodities trading seriously….

Manchurian plague, 1910-11

Iain Meiklejohn

…with an unprecedented mortality rate of 100 per cent.[3] As a point of comparison, this places the death toll of the Manchurian plague in the same region as that of…