Introduction: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 41 (4) , 687-707
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2055445
Abstract
This article delineates new approaches to the study of food and famine in Chinese history. Drawing primarily from the three other articles in the symposium, the author asks in what ways the Chinese state, primarily in the high Qing period, affected population growth, agricultural production, natural cycles, and food distribution, and what a historical perspective suggests about the People's Republic of China's efforts to feed its population.Keywords
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