Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949
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Description
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 Calamityconsiders 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.
ISBN
978-0774825955
Publication Date
1-27-2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
City
Seattle, WA
Keywords
jianghan plain, central china, chinese history, environmental history, socioeconomic history
Disciplines
Asian History | Chinese Studies | Political History | Social History