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Book by Will, Pierre-Etienne
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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- PublisherStanford University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0804717338
- ISBN 13 9780804717335
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages364
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fine cloth, lacks DJ. xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Summary:The focus of the book is a detailed study of the drought-related famine that struck Zhili (now Hebei) province in 1743 and 1744 and of the government's efforts to cope with the disaster. In the process, the author examines the state's financial resources, the patterns of local organization, and the everyday life of the poor, all set within the wider structure of national economic decision making. Seller Inventory # hspilsoas19
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Bureaucracy and famine in eighteenth-century China / Pierre-Etienne Will ; translated from the French by Elborg Forster
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes Translation of: Bureaucratie et famine en Chine au 18e siècle.Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-341) and index. Contents: Notes on famine in China. Preliminary considerations on natural calamities -- The problem of vagrancy -- Social unrest -- Famine and landlordism -- Bureaucratic organization. Investigating famine -- Providing relief -- Supplies : the example of 1743-1744 -- Controlling prices -- Strengthening and rebuilding production -- Conclusions and perspectives. Introductory remarks -- The evolution of the state's economic means -- Geographical distribution of famine relief -- Recapitulation -- "Return allocations" paid in twnety-three of the twenty-seven disaster stricken counties of Zhili, 1743-1744 -- Testimony and countertestimony collected on Peking Vagrants, 1743 -- Tax exemption rates under the Ming and Qing -- Replanting aid in fourteen of the sixteen "totally ruined" counties of Zhili -- Selected examples of important anti-famine operations, 1742-1823. Subjects: 1700-1799: Famines China; History 18th century; Food relief China History 18th century; Bureaucracy; China History 18th century; 1575 history of Asia; Bureaucracy.Famines; Food relief; China; China History Qing dynasty; 1644-1912; Hebei Sheng (China) Economic conditions 18th century; China Population 18th century; Food supply Shortages History. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389130
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Bureaucracy and famine in eighteenth-century China / Pierre-Etienne Will ; translated from the French by Elborg Forster
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes Translation of: Bureaucratie et famine en Chine au 18e siècle.Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-341) and index. Contents: Notes on famine in China. Preliminary considerations on natural calamities -- The problem of vagrancy -- Social unrest -- Famine and landlordism -- Bureaucratic organization. Investigating famine -- Providing relief -- Supplies : the example of 1743-1744 -- Controlling prices -- Strengthening and rebuilding production -- Conclusions and perspectives. Introductory remarks -- The evolution of the state's economic means -- Geographical distribution of famine relief -- Recapitulation -- "Return allocations" paid in twnety-three of the twenty-seven disaster stricken counties of Zhili, 1743-1744 -- Testimony and countertestimony collected on Peking Vagrants, 1743 -- Tax exemption rates under the Ming and Qing -- Replanting aid in fourteen of the sixteen "totally ruined" counties of Zhili -- Selected examples of important anti-famine operations, 1742-1823. Subjects: 1700-1799: Famines China; History 18th century; Food relief China History 18th century; Bureaucracy; China History 18th century; 1575 history of Asia; Bureaucracy.Famines; Food relief; China; China History Qing dynasty; 1644-1912; Hebei Sheng (China) Economic conditions 18th century; China Population 18th century; Food supply Shortages History. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389130
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