The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Over time, population pressures and dike building left more and more people in the region vulnerable to frequent water calamities.
The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses during the Qing and Republican periods.
| ISBN: | 9780774825962 |
| Publication date: | 31st January 2015 |
| Author: | Jiayan Zhang |
| Publisher: | UBCPress an imprint of University of British Columbia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 292 pages |
| Series: | Contemporary Chinese Studies |
| Genres: |
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging.
Coping With Calamity features in the following genres: Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
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Coping With Calamity was written by Jiayan Zhang and published by UBCPress an imprint of University of British Columbia Press
Coping With Calamity has 292 pages
Yes it is part of Contemporary Chinese Studies series