Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. TABLES xi
4. FIGURES xiii
5. MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS xv
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. CHAPTER ONE “Heaven, Earth, and Man” in North China 13
9. CHAPTER TWO Managing the Rivers: Emperors as Engineers 38
10. CHAPTER THREE Population, Agriculture, and Food 74
11. CHAPTER FOUR Food and Prices 111
12. CHAPTER FIVE Provisioning Beijing 144
13. CHAPTER SIX Storing Grain: Granaries as Solution and Problem 166
14. CHAPTER SEVEN Markets and Prices 196
15. CHAPTER EIGHT Famine Relief: The High Qing Model 221
16. CHAPTER NINE Famine Relief: Nineteenth-Century Devolution 250
17. CHAPTER TEN The “Land of Famine,” 1900‒1949 283
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN Rural Crisis and Economic Change, 1900–1949 310
19. CHAPTER TWELVE Food and Famine Under Socialist Rule, 1949–1990s 341
20. Conclusion 377
21. Reign Periods of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) and Use of Dates 389
22. Weights and Measures 391
23. Glossary (Chinese Characters) 393
24. Appendices 399
25. Abbreviations Used in Notes 419
26. Notes 421
27. Bibliography 483
28. Gazetteers 507
29. Index 509