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A Humanitarian Success: Westerners' Protection of Chinese Refugees in the Rape of Nanking, 1937-38 [PDF]
, 2014 The thesis introduces the international efforts in saving Chinese refugees by twenty four Westerners who stayed in Nanjing during the Rape of Nanking, a Japanese atrocity between December 13, 1937 and early January 1938.
Zong, Yongzhe
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The Bahmani “currency reform” of the early fifteenth century in light of the Akola hoard [PDF]
, 2018 Accepted ...
Tandon, Pankaj, Wagoner, Phillip B.
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FIFTY YEARS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN CHINA: A JOURNEY THROUGH REVOLUTION, REFORM AND OPENNESS [PDF]
This paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s,
Kanbur, Ravi, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Rising regional income inequality in China: Fact or artefact? [PDF]
, 2012 China’s local populations can be counted in two ways; by how many people have hukou household registration from each place and by how many people actually reside in each place.
Gibson, John, Li, Chao
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Communism and economic modernization [PDF]
, 2012 The paper examines the range of national experiences of communist rule in terms of the aspiration to ‘overtake and outstrip the advanced countries economically’. It reviews the causal beliefs of the rulers, the rise and fall of their economies (or, in
Harrison, Mark
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Famine exposure in early life increases risk of cataracts in elderly stage
Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundEpidemiological studies have shown that early-life nutritional deficiencies are associated with an increased risk of diseases later in life. This study aimed to explore the correlation between famine exposure during the early stages of life and
Jiayuan Feng +13 more
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Migration Experiences of North Korean Refugees: Survey Evidence from China [PDF]
Chronic food shortages, political repression, and poverty have driven tens of thousands of North Koreans into China. This paper reports results from a large-scale survey of this refugee population.
Marcus Noland +2 more
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Enamel Hypoplasia Related to Historical Famine Stress in the Contemporary Chinese Population
Dental Anthropology, 1997 Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH), a defect in enamel formation, has been frequently attributed to malnutrition and other physiological stress during periods of enamel development (Sarnat and Schour, 1941; Kreshover, 1960).
Liming Zhou, Robert S. Corruccini
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Famine in North Korea Redux? [PDF]
In the 1990s, 600,000 to 1 million North Koreans, or about 3 to 5 percent of the precrisis population, perished in one of the worst famines of the 20th century.North Korea is once again poised on the brink of famine. Although the renewed provision of aid
Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard
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