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² The author has previously written two outstanding articles on famine relief. In “North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920–1921,” Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 3 (2013): 820–50, he previewed the research and conclusions found in the present book. In “Decentering International and Institutional Relief in Late Nineteenth-Century China: In Search of the Local,” European Review of History 22, no. 6 (2015): 873–89, he finds in the 1876–79 North China famine “a surprising persistence of local humanitarian traditions still barely covered by historians” (873). In compact form, these articles did not need to face the challenge of context and organization posed by a book format.