The Extent of Natural Disasters

Songlin Yang
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Songlin Yang: Henan Provincial Development Research Center

Chapter Chapter 12 in Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally, 2021, pp 197-212 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter answers a question of how and to what extent natural weather conditions such as floods and drought affected the GLF famine. By affirming that such disasters existed and had significant implications for the famine, Yang Songlin contends that it is not reasonable for some scholars to discard data kept by meteorological authorities and adopt instead selected records maintained by hydrological stations only. What mattered were time and location: whether the rain came in time for crops; or where a province was struck by flood while drought hit another. “Normal” average precipitation of any particular year, as assumed or argued by some scholars who want to dismiss the weather factor, makes little sense.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1661-7_12

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