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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Environmental change, economic growth, and peasant behavior: The agrarian history of the Jianghan plain, 1644--1949 Abstract: My dissertation analyzes changes in the rural economy of China from the ecological perspective. It examines the effect of frequent water calamities upon the rural economy of the Jianghan plain, the central basin of Hubei province, and the resulting changes in peasant behavior throughout the Qing (1644-1911) and the Republican eras (1912-1949). The dike systems in this plain had become an increasing important means to protect farmland from annual floods since the Ming (1368-1644), and more and more lakes were simultaneously being reclaimed as yuan (farmland circled by dikes) under increasing population pressure, which only served to exacerbate the water calamities. The expansion of yuan combined with frequent water calamities constantly changed the local environment, which in turn had a great effect upon the development of the local economy. |
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