1982/08/01 by Lillian M. Li · 72 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Agricultural productivity #Agriculture #China #Chinese history and philosophy #Demography #Development economics #Distribution (mathematics) #Economics #Economy #Famine #Food distribution #Geography #Historical Economic and Social Studies #History #Law #Period (music) #Perspective (graphical) #Political science #Population #Population growth #Sociology #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.2307/2055445
published in The Journal of Asian Studies 41(4), 687-707 (Cambridge University Press)
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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.