I. Relieving Beijing: War in July -- Municipal relief -- Military men -- Cigarettes, opera and religious sects -- City charities and the countryside -- II. The famine field: Village mutual aid -- Bureaucratic relief -- Migrant routes -- Manchurian relief -- International relief. "Details how drought famine of 1920-1921, indigenous action from the household to the national levels, pulling from relief repertoires inherited from the Qing era, sustained the lives of millions of the destitute before joint foreign-Chinese international relief groups became a significant force"--Provided by publisher |