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3 pages in length. China has endured myriad natural disasters that have taken millions of lives, not the least of which includes floods, earthquakes, drought and typhoons; however, none can lay claim to the overwhelming death toll the way famine can. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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earthquakes, drought and typhoons; however, none can lay claim to the overwhelming death toll the way famine can. Beginning with the Chihli earthquake of 1290 where one hundred thousand
people died, Scaruffi (2995) accounts for every major natural disaster to which China has been a victim. Providing the caveat that Beijing "does not disclose the numbers of victims
of natural disasters, thus many disasters that took place in China may not be known to the rest of the world" (Scaruffi, 2005), he offers an otherwise comprehensive list of
and their corresponding dead so as to illustrate the vastness between and among each event. All told, China has lost almost two million people to earthquakes; more than 4.7 million
to flooding (3.7 million in 1931 alone); nine million to a single drought that lasted two years; in the latter part of the nineteenth century; three hundred thousand to typhoons;
and a staggering eighty-nine million to famine (Scaruffi, 2005). The prevalence of famine as the most costly natural disaster where the death toll is concerned brings to light the consequences
for having a country literally populate itself to death. As with so many historical events that repeat themselves, Chinas record or famine throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth
century reflects a cyclical recoil of increased famine deaths rather than what one might expect to be a slow but steady move away from a natural disaster that, by all
accounts, is at least partially man-made. The 1907 famine took twenty million lives; the 1928, 1936 and 1941 famines had a death toll of three million, 5 million and
3 million, respectively. Two decades later, the worst cost in human lives occurred when thirty-eight million people succumbed to starvation. Just eight years after that another twenty million
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