"Heaven, earth, and man" in North China
Managing the rivers : emperors as engineers
Population, agriculture, and food
Food and prices
Provisioning Beijing
Storing grain : granaries as solution and problem
Markets and prices
Famine relief : the High Qing model
Famine relief : nineteenth-century
The "land of famine", 1900-1949
Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949
Food and famine under socialist rule, 1949-1990s.