[PDF] Report Of The China Famine Relief American Red Cross October 1920 September 1921 eBook

Author : American National Red Cross
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781019919057

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In the wake of a devastating famine in China that left millions of people hungry and destitute, the American Red Cross launched a massive relief effort. This report provides an overview of the organization's activities during this period, including the distribution of food and medical supplies, and the operation of refugee camps. The report includes photographs and statistics, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of humanitarian aid. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Release : 2019
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Description: Includes a request from American Red Cross to be allotted the district from The Chow to Tun Ch'ang to distribute famine relief, a report of the operations of the China Famine Relief in Peking, correspondence regarding salt supplies and the transportation of foodstuffs.

Author : Pierre Fuller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1684176026

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Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. In 1920–1921, drought and ensuing famine devastated more than 300 counties in five northern provinces, leading to some 500,000 deaths. Long credited to international intervention, the relief effort, Pierre Fuller shows, actually began from within Chinese social circles. Indigenous action from the household to the national level, modeled after Qing-era relief protocol, sustained the lives of millions of the destitute in Beijing, in the surrounding districts of Zhili (Hebei) Province, and along the migrant and refugee trail in Manchuria, all before joint foreign–Chinese international relief groups became a force of any significance. Using district gazetteers, stele inscriptions, and the era’s vibrant Chinese press, Fuller reveals how a hybrid civic sphere of military authorities working with the public mobilized aid and coordinated migrant movement within stricken communities and across military domains. Ultimately, the book’s spotlight on disaster governance in northern China in 1920 offers new insights into the social landscape just before the region’s descent, over the next decade, into incessant warfare, political struggle, and finally the normalization of disaster itself.

Author : Chris Courtney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108417779

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Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.

Author : Tamar Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429783922

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This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering. Despite global efforts to end hunger, it persists and has even increased in some regions. This book provides interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the manifestations of food insecurity, with case studies illustrating how people coped with violations of their rights during the war-time deprivation in France; the neoliberal incursions on food supply in Turkey, Greece, and Nicaragua; as well as the consequences of radioactive contamination of farmland in Japan. This edited collection adopts an analytical approach to understanding food insecurity by examining how the historical and political situations in different countries have resulted in an unfolding dialectic of food insecurity and resistance, with the most marginalized people—immigrants, those in refugee camps, poor peasants, and so forth—consistently suffering the worst effects, yet still maintaining agency to fight back. The book tackles food insecurity on a local as well as a global scale and will thus be useful for a broad range of audiences, including students, scholars, and the general public interested in studying food crises, globalization, and current global issues.

Author : Jerry Israel
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822975882

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During the progressive era, most American policymakers agreed that China represented a land of unlimited opportunity for trade, investment and social reform. Serious divisions existed, however, over policy tactics. One side (mainly manufacturers and academics) advocated a unilateral policy of penetration allied only with Chinese modernizers. The other (primarily financiers and reformists), called for an alliance with other powers, especially Japan, in their dealings with China. In Progressivism and the Open Door, Jerry Israel examines the many factors that led to formal U.S. policy toward China during this era-one that ultimately found a middle ground between the two divisions.