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1935 Yangtze River Flood
Map of the Yangtze River
Date
July 6, 1935[citation needed]
Location
Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
Deaths
145,000
Property damage
$333 million (about $6.2 billion today[1])
The 1935 Yangtze flood struck China during a decade of flooding, famine and social turmoil.[2] It is considered to be the fifth deadliest flood in recorded history, with a death toll of 145,000 and displacement of millions.[2] As a result of the flood, millions of survivors were faced with hardship due to displacement, injury, loss of property as well as food shortages and famine.[2]
Four years earlier in 1931, after three years of drought, both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers experienced significant flooding. Known as the 1931 China Floods, they were considered to be the worst non-pandemic disaster of the century because of the millions of deaths they led to indirectly.[2] With the 1935 floods following on so soon from the 1931 floods, flood relief infrastructure, which included drainage reservoirs and floodwater channels, was soon overwhelmed.[2]
The Yangtze River flooding primarily affected the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all of which are located in the middle to lower reaches of the river.[2]
^Lockwood, Edward T. (1935-10-23). "Floods and Flood Prevention in China". Far Eastern Survey. 4 (21): 164–168. doi:10.2307/3021960. JSTOR 3021960.
^ abcdefKte'pi, Bill (2011), "Yangtze River Flood (1935)", Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief, SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 803–804, doi:10.4135/9781412994064.n323, ISBN 9781412971010, retrieved 2020-02-10
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