Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s / Lillian M. Li.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2007], ©2007.

xix, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-506) and index.

"Heaven, earth, and man" in North China -- Managing the rivers : emperors as engineers -- Population, agriculture, and food -- Food and prices -- Provisioning Beijing -- Storing grain : granaries as solution and problem -- Markets and prices -- Famine relief : the High Qing model -- Famine relief : nineteenth-century -- The "land of famine", 1900-1949 -- Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949 -- Food and famine under socialist rule, 1949-1990s.