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| 1920–1921 || Nutrition || Crisis || 1920–1921 North China famine. A {{w|drought}} in five Chinese provinces lasting twelve months provoques a famine, killing around 500,000 people.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge History of China: Volume 14, The People's Republic, Part 1, The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949-1965 |edition=Roderick MacFarquhar, John K. Fairbank, Denis C. Twitchett |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ioppEjkCkeEC&pg=PA371&dq=Chinese+famine+of+1928%E2%80%9330&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA_YOEh7PmAhXWH7kGHSWMAgsQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Chinese%20famine%20of%201928%E2%80%9330&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=FULLER |first1=PIERRE |title=North China Famine Revisited: Unsung Native Relief in the Warlord Era, 1920–1921 |doi=10.1017/s0026749x12000534}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=North China famine, 1920-21 |url=http://www.disasterhistory.org/north-china-famine-1920-21 |website=disasterhistory.org |accessdate=13 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 1921 || Background || || The {{w|Communist Party of China}} is formed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Communism in China |url=https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/communism-computing-china/china.html |website=cs.stanford.edu |accessdate=14 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 1928–1930 || Nutrition || Crisis || A [[w:Chinese famine of 1928–30|famine in Northern China]] breaks out, first affecting coastal {{w|Shandong}} Province, and then shifting northwest to inland {{w|Henan}}, {{w|Shaanxi}} and {{w|Gansu}}. Warfare and drought disaster across the region are considered the cause of the famine. Death toll ranges from 3 to 10 million people.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vermeer |first1=Eduard B. |title=Economic Development in Provincial China: The Central Shaanxi Since 1930 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ZjfeRIG8SjoC&pg=PA28&dq=Chinese+famine+of+1928%E2%80%9330&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjToZSmh7PmAhUQHrkGHbTzCRo4FBDoAQhSMAY#v=onepage&q=Chinese%20famine%20of%201928%E2%80%9330&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Northwest China famine, 1928-30 |url=http://www.disasterhistory.org/the-northwest-china-famine-1928-1930 |website=disasterhistory.org |accessdate=13 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Perspectives on Environmental History in China |journal=Journal of Chinese History |doi=10.1017/jch.2018.4 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/article/drought-and-famine-in-northwest-china-a-late-victorian-tragedy/5693EF8F6E7B5BDAED2802E185D26F56/core-reader}}</ref>
