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Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6] 15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million Drought Chinese famine of 1928–30. Gansu, Shaanxi. [9 ...
For keeping up to date with new scholarship, see Ch. 76. Those not familiar with the terminology and conventions of Chinese manuscripts, printing, and book culture should turn to Book XIV (on the history of the Chinese book and Chinese historical bibliography).
Natural disasters reveal the traditional view of disasters as divine retribution: tian zai (天災), literally 'heavenly disaster'.. In ancient beliefs, natural disasters were seen as Heaven's response to immoral human behaviour, whereby the conduct of different individuals carried different weights.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Natural disasters in China (12 C, 5 P) ... Category: Disasters in China.
The Cambridge History of China; The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature; China and Japan; China's Red Army Marches; China's Response to the West (book) China's War Reporters; China's Wings; Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order; Chinese History: A New Manual; Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China; The Crippled Tree
The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400 (2018) Chao, Kang. Man and Land in Chinese History: An Economic Analysis (Stanford UP, 1986) Chow, Gregory C. China's Economic Transformation (2nd ed. 2007) Elvin, Mark. Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. (2004). 564 pp.
The Mongol Yuan dynasty became the first conquest dynasty in Chinese history to rule the entirety of China proper and its population as an ethnic minority. The dynasty also directly controlled the Mongol heartland and other regions, inheriting the largest share of territory of the eastern Mongol empire , which roughly coincided with the modern ...
Liao, former Vice Director of the History Research Unit of the CCP, reported 40 million "unnatural" deaths due to the famine. [44] [45] 36 Mao Yushi: 2014 Mao, a Chinese economist and winner of the 2012 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, put the death toll at 36 million. [46] 36 Yang Jisheng: 2012