- List of Illustrations*
- Weights, Measures and Currency
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Relieving Beijing
- 1. War in July
- 2. Municipal Relief
- 3. Military Men
- 4. Cigarettes, Opera and Religious Sects
- 5. City Charities and the Countryside
- II. The Famine Field
- 6. Village Mutual Aid
- 7. Bureaucratic Relief
- 8. Migrant Routes
- 9. Manchurian Relief
- 10. International Relief
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix: The Nankai Camp, Tianjin
- Chinese Characters
- Notes
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations
- Figures
- 1. Gen. Wang Huaiqing
- 2. Congee distribution, smoking boy, and others
- 3. Gen. Wang Huaiqing at an opium burning
- 4. Gen. Jiang Chaozong
- 5. A street scene in Beijing’s Tartar (Manchu) City
- 6. Spring relief distribution in Jingxing, Zhili
- 7. Famine conditions in Zhili Province, December 1920
- Maps
- 1. North China showing the extent of the 1920–21 drought-famine
- 2. The Zhili war zone
- 3. Beijing in 1920
- 4. The Zhili famine field
- 5. The three northeastern provinces (Manchuria)
- Figures