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The 1876 Drought That Killed Millions in Qing China

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Four years of drought, crop failure, disease, and starvation devastated northern China in one of the deadliest famines in recorded history. In the winter of 1877, villagers in Shanxi ground stones into powder and mixed it with flour. Others dug up a white clay known as Guanyin earth, a desperate substitute for food that often […]

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The 1876 Drought That Killed Millions in Qing China

Four years of drought, crop failure, disease, and starvation devastated northern China in one of the deadliest famines in recorded history. In the winter of 1877, villagers in Shanxi ground stones into powder and mixed it with flour. Others dug up a white clay known as Guanyin earth, a desperate substitute for food that often […]

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visiontimes.com broke the news on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
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