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Post-Mao PRC (1976- ). Central China flood, 1931. In 1931 Central China experienced a devastating flood that inundated an area equivalent in size of England and half of Scotland, affected the lives of an estimated 52 million people, and killed as many as 2 million. In Chinese this event is usually described as the Yangzi-Huai Flood (. Yet the disaster was not limited to these two rivers. Later Peter Perdue identified a similar developmental pattern in neighbouring Hunan during the Ming and Qing dynasties...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECOMMENDED READINGS. Post-Mao PRC (1976- ). Yellow River flood, 1938-47. In June 1938, Chinese Nationalist armies under the command of Chiang Kai-shek breached the Yellow River’s dikes at Huayuankou in Henan province in a desperate attempt to block a Japanese military advance. After Chinese and Japanese armies had clashed at Marco Polo Bridge in July 1937, the Japanese military launched a full-scale offensive into the heart of China, seizing Nationalist China’s capital of Nanjing in Dece...
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Post-Mao PRC (1976- ). Wenchuan earthquake, 2008. On May 12, 2008, Wenchuan county in Sichuan province, in Southwest China, was hit by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake that severely affected the northern areas of the province as well as some regions of the neighbouring provinces Gansu and Shaanxi. News reel clip of a BBC report on the earthquake, May 15, 2008. Source: BBC, ‘China Sichuan Quake – BBC report,’ newsreel, May 15, 2008. The plan particularly emphasized improving the safety of rural communities thr...
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Post-Mao PRC (1976- ). North China famine, 1876-79. Between 1876 and 1879, the most lethal drought-famine in imperial China’s long history of famines and disasters struck the five northern provinces of Shandong, Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi. The drought in the Yellow River basin area began in earnest in 1876, and worsened dramatically with the almost total failure of rain in 1877. The Qing Empire and the North China Famine. Source: Graphic Services, Indiana University. Paying indemnities to victorio...
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FAMINE IN THE CITIES. EDEMA IN THE CITIES. Post-Mao PRC (1976- ). Great Leap famine, 1958-62 (Urban Perspective). After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the new people’s government centralized and monopolized disaster management by taking over republican disaster governance structures and incorporating charity and philanthropy organisations, such as the Chinese Red Cross, into state organisation. It had offices down to county level, but it was a relatively weak agency, having ...
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