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Introduction: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Lillian M. Li
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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.

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Food, Famine, and the Chinese State—A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , August 1982 , pp. 687 - 707
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982

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