Title Coping with calamity : environmental change and peasant response in central China, 1736-1949 / Jiayan Zhang.

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Vancouver [British Columbia] : UBC Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource (xii, pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Contemporary Chinese studies
	Contemporary Chinese studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Wetland ecology -- China -- Jianghan Region -- History.
	Wetland ecology.
	China -- Jianghan Region.
	History.
	Agricultural ecology -- China -- Jianghan Region -- History.
	Agricultural ecology.
	Peasants -- China -- Jianghan Region -- Economic conditions.
	Peasants.
	Economic conditions.
	Peasants -- China -- Jianghan Region -- Social conditions.
	Social conditions.
	Jianghan Region (China) -- Environmental conditions -- History.
	Jianghan Region (China) -- Economic conditions.
	Jianghan Region (China) -- Social conditions.
	Jianghan Region (China) -- Rural conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Zhang, Jiayan, 1964- Coping with calamity. Vancouver : UBC Press, [2014] 9780774825955 (OCoLC)862781744
ISBN	9780774825955 (bound)
	0774825952
	9780774825979 (electronic)
	0774825979
	9780774825986
	0774825987

Title Coping with calamity : environmental change and peasant response in central China, 1736-1949 / Jiayan Zhang.

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