Coping with calamity : environmental change and peasant response in central China, 1736-1949 / Jiayan Zhang.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary Chinese studiesPublisher: Vancouver [British Columbia] : UBC Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xii, pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:- text
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- Wetland ecology -- China -- Jianghan Region -- History
- Agricultural ecology -- China -- Jianghan Region -- History
- Peasants -- China -- Jianghan Region -- Economic conditions
- Peasants -- China -- Jianghan Region -- Social conditions
- Jianghan Region (China) -- Environmental conditions -- History
- Jianghan Region (China) -- Economic conditions
- Jianghan Region (China) -- Social conditions
- Jianghan Region (China) -- Rural conditions
- Écologie des zones humides -- Chine -- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei) -- Histoire
- Écologie agricole -- Chine -- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei) -- Histoire
- Paysannerie -- Chine -- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei) -- Conditions économiques
- Paysannerie -- Chine -- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei) -- Conditions sociales
- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) -- Conditions environnementales -- Histoire
- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) -- Conditions économiques
- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) -- Conditions sociales
- Jianghan, Région de (Hubei, Chine) -- Conditions rurales
- NATURE -- Essays
- NATURE -- Reference
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism
- Agricultural ecology
- Ecology
- Economic history
- Peasants -- Economic conditions
- Peasants -- Social conditions
- Rural conditions
- Social conditions
- Wetland ecology
- China -- Jianghan Region
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- QH181 .Z53 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Changes in the Environment of the Jianghan Plain -- Water Calamities and the Management of the Dike Systems -- The Dike Systems and the Jianghan Economy -- Agriculture, Commercialization, and Environmental Adaptability -- Tenancy and Environment -- Fisheries and the Peasant Economy -- A Water-Rich Society: Socio-Economic Life in a Marshy Kingdom -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Yield of Rice in the Jianghan Plain in the Qing and the Republic -- Glossary.
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