Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s-1990s - Paperbackby Lillian M. Li (Author) This monumental work provides a new perspective on the historical significance of famines in China over the past three hundred years. It examines the relationship between the interventionist state policies of the eighteenth century Qing emperors ("the golden age of famine relief"), the environmental and political crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (when China was called "the Land of Famine"), and the