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The new course led the Yellow River into the Shaying River at the city of Zhoujiakou (now Zhoukou), eventually joining the Huai River. Water overflowed from these smaller rivers, causing widespread destruction in the basin. According to a postwar report, floods inundated 32 percent of land and 45 percent of villages in 20 affected counties. [25]
Yellow River civilization, Huanghe civilization or Huanghe Valley civilization (Chinese: 黃河文明), Hwan‐huou civilization is an ancient Chinese civilization that prospered in the middle and lower basin of the Yellow River. [1]
As such, the Yellow River has been considered a blessing and a curse throughout history, and has been nicknamed both "China's Pride" and "China's Sorrow". [3] The Yellow River's basin presently has a population of 120 million people, while over 420 million people live in the immediate provinces which rely on it as a water source. [4]
In an attempt to win more time for the preparation of the defense of Wuhan, the Chinese opened up the dikes of the Yellow River in Huayuankou, Zhengzhou on 9 June. The flood, now known as the 1938 Yellow River flood, forced the Japanese to delay their attack on Wuhan. However, it also caused around 500,000 to 900,000 civilian deaths by flooding ...
Caused by drought, locusts, Second Sino-Japanese War, 1938 Yellow River flood, corruption, and government inefficiency The province of Henan in the modern People's Republic of China . The Henan famine of 1942–1943 ( Chinese : 河南大饑荒 ) occurred within the context of the Second Sino-Japanese War and resulted from a combination of ...
Women in Henan who were displaced and affected by the 1938 Yellow River flood resorted to various survival strategies to stay alive during the war. Some women migrated to Nationalist-controlled regions of Henan, while others stayed behind in the flooded, occupied region.
During World War II, ... which claims a direct lineage from the early Yellow River basin tribes and alone defines the national vision. ... The arcane pockets of China’s periphery where the Yi ...
The 1958 Yellow River flood was an extraordinarily large rise in the water flow of the Yellow River in China that coincided with the onset of the Great Leap Forward. In July 1958, the peak discharge of the Yellow River at Huayuankou was 22,300 m 3 /s (790,000 cu ft/s) with a maximum sediment concentration of 911 kg/m 3 (57 lb/cu ft), 14× and ...