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Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history. This is a List of famines in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another. The famines ...
China: 927–928: Famine caused by four months of frost [13] [14] Byzantine Empire: 942–944 Famine in the Yellow River Basin caused by severe drought and locust plagues. During the first month 5387 families fled, then approximately 10% of the remaining population starved to death. [15] China: 963–968: Famine: Egypt: 996–997
Pages in category "Famines in China" ... 0–9. Chinese famine of 1333–1337; Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879; Chinese famine of 1906–1907;
The 1894 Hong Kong plague, part of the third plague pandemic, was a major outbreak of the bubonic plague in Hong Kong.While the plague was harshest in 1894, it returned annually between 1895 and 1929, and killed over 20,000 in total, with a fatality rate of more than 93%.
China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia ...
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Frederick Charles Roberts (9 September 1862 – 6 June 1894) was an English physician and medical missionary who served with the London Missionary Society in Mongolia and China. Roberts spent his entire career as a practicing physician in East Asia, dying in China after seven years of mission work.
Great Chinese Famine 三年大饥荒; Country: China: Location: Half of the country. Death rate were highest in Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%). [1] Period: 1959–1961: Total deaths: 15–55 million: Theory: Result of the Great Leap Forward, people's commune, Four Pests campaign and other factors ...