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 Calamity considers 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
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Jiayan Zhang is an associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the Jianghan plain in central China, focusing on the peasants' relationship with a volatile environment. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, , black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RGC; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780774825955