Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant

Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

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
Country USA
Brand University of British Columbia Press
Manufacturer UBC Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-06-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780774825955

Country	USA
Brand	University of British Columbia Press
Manufacturer	UBC Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-06-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780774825955

Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)