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Chinese Civilization is brief, illustrations only. Chinese Civilization. Routes of the Hwang He. 1887: 2,000,000 dead 1931: 3,700,000 dead 1938: The Chinese deliberately dynamite the river levees to cause flooding and slow the invading Japanese. The Japanese were only mildly
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1887: 2,000,000 dead 1931: 3,700,000 dead 1938: The Chinese deliberately dynamite the river levees to cause flooding and slow the invading Japanese. The Japanese were only mildly inconvenienced, but half a million Chinese died. This action makes the “environmental warfare” of the Persian Gulf War look positively trivial. Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Routes of the Hwang He
Ming Dynasty Stem Cup, Porcelain with Copper Red Glaze China, 1368-1400, 4" height
