Book ID: CBB001422302

Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736--1949 (2014)

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Zhang, Jiayan (Author)


UBC Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xii + 276 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

The Jianghan plain in central China is shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, since the eighteenth century it has become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Over time, population pressures and dike building left more and more people in the region vulnerable to its frequent water calamities. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and the peasants' often ingenious and sophisticated responses, in the Qing and Republican periods.

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Authors & Contributors
Bello, David A.
Chiang, Chu-Shan
Salvatore Vinciguerra
Richard Dwight Porcher
Smith, Hayden R.
Chang, Ping-Ying
Concepts
Agriculture
Environmental history
Rice and rice industry
Rice growing
Economics
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
20th century
17th century
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Places
China
South Carolina (U.S.)
Mongolia
Japan
Guangzhou (China)
South Asia
Institutions
Astronomical Bureau (China)
Rockefeller Foundation
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