...Ramon H. Myers Kuang-hsü ch'u-nien (1876–1879) Hua-Pei ti ta-kan-tsai. [The Great Drought Disaster in North China, 1876–1879] . By Ho Hon-wai . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , n.d. 164 pp. N.p. Ching-Han t'ieh-lu ch'u-ch'i shih-lioh. [A Brief History of the Early Years...

...Yao Shan-yu Abstract Throughout history floods and droughts have undoubtedly been the two greatest natural scourges of China. Being thus far primarily an agricultural nation with a close dependence upon nature, China's concern with floods and droughts is clearly understandable. As is generally well...

...Pasuk Phongpaichit Abstract This keynote address offers an overview of Asia in an increasingly fragile world. Climate change is making the monsoon more erratic, bringing more drought and more flood, signaled by the devastating flood of Pakistan in August 2022. Extreme weather and rising sea levels...

...Paul R. Brass Abstract In the summer of 1966, Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh provinces in India experienced one of the worst and most widespread droughts and crop failures in the history of the region during the twentieth century. Massive local, national, and international relief efforts were...

.... To restore equilibrium, the injustice had to be perfectly redressed, no more, no less. To ignore the injury was to risk catastrophe. As one late-Qing official wrote, “The recent natural disasters and interferences with heavenly harmony [i.e., the droughts and famines of the late 1870s and early 1880s...

... the possibilities of a negotiated peace by filling the channels of communications with private proposals that purported to come from their respective governments. It all began in November 1940, when Bishop James E. Walsh and Father James M. Drought of Maryknoll (the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America) took...

... be this Vasiṣṭha who governed the kingdom of Ayodhyā in the twelve years' drought during Satyavrata's exile. This identification is corroborated by the remarkably simple and appropriate explanation it offers.” Pargiter F. E. , “Viśvāmitra, Vasiṣṭha, Hariścandra and Sunaḥśepa” JRAS , ( 01 1917 ), p. 39...

... contribution of this work lies in its usefulness as a reference and text for students interested in contemporary Chinese education. JULIA KWONG University of Manitoba Kuang-hsii ch'u-nien (1876-1879) Hua-Pei ti ta-kan-tsai [The Great Drought Disaster in North China, 1876-1879]. By H o HON-WAI. Hong Kong...

... am convinced, as to undermine the value of comparison. Take, for example, Paul Cohen's observation that the suffering brought about by drought is not identical to that triggered by flood (Cohen 1997 , 70–75). This is true, but both the drought in the late 1870s and the flooding in the late 1930s...

... ceremonies, local elites, and the wider populace that observed what the author convincingly shows were public practices. At the local level, officials' rainmaking efforts were in some sense negotiated, as officials often initiated rainmaking in response to farmers' demands during a drought, appealed...

... been, for I have spent years studying legal cases involving disputes over water resources or reviewing accounts of enormous waves of human migration churned by periodic cyclones, floods, and droughts (Macauley 1998 , 2016 , 2021 ). Although I was aware of the impact of the monsoon on local life, I...

... . 1980 . Guangxu chunian (1876–1879) Huabei de tahancai [The great North China drought famine of the early Guangxu reign]. Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press . Ho Ping-ti . 1959 . Studies on the Population of China, 1368–1953 . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Ho Ping-ti...

... apart from all that, and still under a Chinese “rule of law.” These people—flood or drought victims and others—were thus profoundly affected by, yet entirely excluded from, recognition as subjects within what was, in fact, a newly imposed system of political and economic domination. We may, I think...

... drought conditions became apparent. Even during the lowest mortality crisis studied, declining birth rates already were evident during the first of the three years of drought that precipitated the 1972-73 Maharashtra scarcity. Clearly long before nutritional stress induced amenorrhea and anovulation...

.... First, despite some talk of India being on the cusp of becoming a serious foodgrains exporter, droughts actually have become more severe because of ecological degradation, and the consequent scarcity of drinking water, fodder, and fuel-wood make the rural poor, especially women and children, among...

.... As a result of this program, "even if famine, flood and drought should occur, the price of grain would not be high, and the people would not be obliged to emigrate. . . . When his scheme was carried out in Wei, he not only made the people rich, but also made the state strong." (2) Ch'en quotes Mencius's...

... was navigable before the tenth century, but thanks to silting and dyking, flooding steadily increased over the years. Meanwhile, annual precipitation had declined (from 712 millimeters in 1738–1850 to 653 millimeters in 1851–1911). By the Qing period, floods and droughts were common, and the constant vigilance...

..., Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley provides an insightful account of the episode and describes a perfect storm of severe drought, serial crop failures, a beleaguered Qing state, and transportation problems that proved to be deadly impediments to relief efforts. The numbers and images are shocking. Shanxi...

... that the late nineteenth century was a period of extraordinary drought, and here she is quite persuasive. The problem, of course, is the question of who bore the brunt of this climatic severity, and this is where a strong dose of entitlement mapping analysis, on Sen's model, would have been very helpful...

... questions that informants and guides cannot or do not usually answer. One learns strategies for surviving the inevitable droughts, the purpose of those scraggly thorn fences around mustard fields, and even the name of those silly Dr. Seuss trees with red flowers. One also learns about folk music...