Lillian M. Li is Professor of History at Swarthmore College. She has previously published China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937 (1981) and coedited Chinese History in Economic Perspective (1992).
This monumental work provides a new perspective on the historical significance of famines in China over the past three hundred years. It examines the relationship between the interventionist state policies of the eighteenth-century Qing emperors (0;the golden age of famine relief1;), the environmental and political crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (when China was called 0;the Land of Famine1;), and the ambitions of the Mao era (which tragically led to the greatest famine in human history). In addition to a wide array of documentary sources, the book employs quantitative analysis to measure the economic impact of natural crises, state policies, and markets. In this way, the theories of Qing statesmen that have received much attention in recent scholarship are linked to actual practices and outcomes. Using the Zhili-Hebei region as its focus, the book also reveals the unusual role played by the institutions and policies designed to ensure food security for the capital, Beijing.
Published by EH.NET (May 2008) 来源:http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1315 Lillian M. Li, Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. xix + 520 pp. $75 (cloth), IS...
評分Lilian Li’s book Fighting Famine in North China was a huge project considering the timespan of three centuries on a topic so complicated by politics, economy, and social structure. She incorporated great amount of Qing documentation together with quantitat...
評分来自网上的评论: "This is an extraordinary monograph, one that will long remain the definitive account of a most challenging issue—the long-term problem of human sustenance on the northeast China plain."—CHOICE "In this long-awaited book Lillian Li off...
評分来自网上的评论: "This is an extraordinary monograph, one that will long remain the definitive account of a most challenging issue—the long-term problem of human sustenance on the northeast China plain."—CHOICE "In this long-awaited book Lillian Li off...
評分来自网上的评论: "This is an extraordinary monograph, one that will long remain the definitive account of a most challenging issue—the long-term problem of human sustenance on the northeast China plain."—CHOICE "In this long-awaited book Lillian Li off...
相比之下,不如tears from iron。
评分相比之下,不如tears from iron。
评分巨書,作者的學術背景也體現得非常明顯。材料很翔實,論證比較瑣碎,但核心觀點是有說服力的,即清早期成功預示瞭晚期的失敗,強調瞭市場、地方貯備等buffer的重要性和不同的賑災模式。
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