Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 - Brossura

Zhang, Jiayan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0774825960 ISBN 13: 9780774825962

Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Jiayan Zhang is an associate professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

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• Editore: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0774825960
• ISBN 13: 9780774825962
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276