Download or read book Famine in China and the Missionary written by Paul Richard Bohr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.
Download or read book In War and Famine written by Erleen J. Christensen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In War and Famine uses a small key - the author's family letters and infant memories - to unlock a whole world. Erleen Christensen was a "mish kid," the daughter of one of about two hundred missionaries who remained in China's Honan province during World War II and the civil war that followed. She provides an eye-witness account using letters, diaries, and personal accounts, many still in private hands, of one of the worst famines in China's history and the great devastation caused by advancing Japanese troops. Christensen chronicles how a religiously diverse group of Westerners tried to distribute famine relief and conduct humanitarian and educational missions in the face of rising nationalism, autonomy, and resistance to foreign intervention. While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle.
Download or read book Famine in China and the Missionary written by Paul Richard Bohr and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famine in China and the Missionary written by Endymion Porter Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report and Accounts from October 1 1911 to June 30 1912 written by Central China Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the China International Famine Relief Commission written by Andrew Nathan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1965-07-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of the China International Famine Relief Commission, an organization of western residents, particularly missionaries, in China that assisted the victims of famines that persisted in North China.
Download or read book The Famine in China written by China Famine Relief Fund (London) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In war and famine written by Erleen J. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the China Famine Relief American Red Cross October 1920 September 1921 written by American National Red Cross. China Famine Relief and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report and Accounts written by Central China Famine Relief Committee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Timothy Richard of China written by William Edward Soothill and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tears from Iron written by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her analysis contributes a broader and deeper understanding of the Incredible Famine than has previously been available in English and situates the tragedy alongside Irish and Indian famines to provide a truly global comparison of cultural responses to famine in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Encountering China written by Andrew T. Kaiser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welsh Baptist missionary to China Timothy Richard (1845–1919) was once widely regarded as “one of the greatest missionaries whom any branch of the Church, whether Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, or Protestant, has sent to China.” Today, few have heard of Richard and his remarkable lifetime of ministry in China. As the first critical examination of Richard’s missionary identity, this groundbreaking historical study traces the narrative of Richard’s early life in Wales and his formative first two decades of service in China. Richard’s adaptations to the common evangelistic techniques of his day, his interest in learning from grassroots Chinese sectarian religions, his integration of evangelism and famine relief during the North China Famine (1876–79), his strategic decision to evangelize Chinese elites, and his complicated relationships with Hudson Taylor and other China missionaries are all explored through the writings and personal letters of Richard and his contemporaries. The resulting portrait represents a significant revision to existing interpretations of this influential China missionary, emphasizing his deep empathy for the people of China and his abiding evangelical identity. Readable and relevant, Encountering China provides a new generation with an introduction to this lost legend of China mission.
Download or read book The Ecology of War in China written by Micah S. Muscolino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.
Download or read book Call to the East written by John Fitch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of two China missionaries: George Field Fitch and Mary (McLellan) Fitch. They sailed for China in 1870 as a Presbyterian minister and his wife. They spent the rest of their lives there, living through wars and famine, in service to the Chinese people.
Download or read book Famine Relief in Warlord China written by Pierre Fuller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Tombstone written by Yang Jisheng and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.