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Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth).

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Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2020

Lillian M. Li*
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020

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References

1 Peking United International Famine Relief Commission, The North China Famine of 1920–21 (Peking: Commercial Press Works Ltd., 1922); MacNair, Harley Farnsworth, With the White Cross in China (Peking: Henri Vetch, 1939)Google Scholar.

2 The author has previously written two outstanding articles on famine relief. In “North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920–1921,” Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 3 (2013): 820–50, he previewed the research and conclusions found in the present book. In “Decentering International and Institutional Relief in Late Nineteenth-Century China: In Search of the Local,” European Review of History 22, no. 6 (2015): 873–89, he finds in the 1876–79 North China famine “a surprising persistence of local humanitarian traditions still barely covered by historians” (873). In compact form, these articles did not need to face the challenge of context and organization posed by a book format.