Author: Paul Richard Bohr
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.
Famine in China and the Missionary
Author: Paul Richard Bohr
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.
In War and Famine
Author: Erleen J. Christensen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773528536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In War and Famine uses a small key - the author's family letters and infant memories - to unlock a whole world. Erleen Christensen was a "mish kid," the daughter of one of about two hundred missionaries who remained in China's Honan province during World War II and the civil war that followed. She provides an eye-witness account using letters, diaries, and personal accounts, many still in private hands, of one of the worst famines in China's history and the great devastation caused by advancing Japanese troops. Christensen chronicles how a religiously diverse group of Westerners tried to distribute famine relief and conduct humanitarian and educational missions in the face of rising nationalism, autonomy, and resistance to foreign intervention. While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773528536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In War and Famine uses a small key - the author's family letters and infant memories - to unlock a whole world. Erleen Christensen was a "mish kid," the daughter of one of about two hundred missionaries who remained in China's Honan province during World War II and the civil war that followed. She provides an eye-witness account using letters, diaries, and personal accounts, many still in private hands, of one of the worst famines in China's history and the great devastation caused by advancing Japanese troops. Christensen chronicles how a religiously diverse group of Westerners tried to distribute famine relief and conduct humanitarian and educational missions in the face of rising nationalism, autonomy, and resistance to foreign intervention. While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle.
Famine in China and the Missionary
Famine in China and the Missionary
Author: Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A History of the China International Famine Relief Commission
Author: Andrew Nathan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Provides a history of the China International Famine Relief Commission, an organization of western residents, particularly missionaries, in China that assisted the victims of famines that persisted in North China.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Provides a history of the China International Famine Relief Commission, an organization of western residents, particularly missionaries, in China that assisted the victims of famines that persisted in North China.
Report and Accounts from October 1, 1911, to June 30, 1912
Author: Central China Famine Relief Committee, Shanghai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Famine in China
Author: China Famine Relief Fund (London)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
In war and famine
Author: Erleen J. Christensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780013118640
Category : Henan Sheng (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780013118640
Category : Henan Sheng (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Report of the China Famine Relief, American Red Cross, October 1920 - September 1921
Author: American National Red Cross. China Famine Relief
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Report and Accounts
Author: Central China Famine Relief Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description