新书：《中国军阀的饥荒救济》

Famine Relief in Warlord China

Pierre Fuller

出版社：Harvard University Press

出版社年：09/17/2019

$34.00 • £27.95 • €30.50

ISBN 9780674241145

340 pages

6 x 9 inches

7 photos, 1 illus., 5 maps

本书简介

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.

作者简介

Pierre Fuller is Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of Manchester.Pierre Fuller is a historian of modern China. His research interests have focused on understandings and forms of disaster relief and philanthropy in late 19th and 20th century China, as well as rural society and the role and development of media on the mainland over the same period. His monograph Famine Relief in Warlord China (forthcoming, Harvard University Asia Center) focuses on a moment otherwise known for international relief contributions in China, and instead places native relief networks and refugee reception at centre stage, shedding light on the volume and variety of indigenous relief efforts in Beijing, rural Zhili (Hebei) province and Manchuria during severe drought in the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic.

For the 2015-16 academic year, he was a research fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, where he worked on a new book project examining the politicisation of humanitarian crises. The project examines the documentation and cultural memory of natural disaster by focusing on the shaping of public perceptions of rural society and governance during the major Haiyuan (Gansu) earthquake of 1920 by revolutionary activists and May Fourth intellectuals in China on the eve of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.Before joining the department at Manchester in 2012, he received his BA from Georgetown University and his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, where his research was funded by a Fulbright, a Schaeffer Fellowship, and a Harvard-Yenching Institute/Peking University Fellowship in Advanced Chinese Studies.He is also founding editor of the online resource DisasterHistory.org, a collaborative effort by historians to provide a multimedia web-based repository of research on natural and man-made disaster in China’s past.