The Study Of The Flooded Areas Of Yellow River,1938-1947

In 1938,the floodwaters inundated 50,000 square kilometers of land to the southeast of the Yellow River breach in Honan,Anhwei,and Kiangsu provinces,because of the breaking of dikes by the National Government.The change of the flooded areas was the course of the environmental change,,and it reflected the dispute of the power and benefits.This paper analyzes the role of the political groups and organizations in the process of the floods,explores the hidden motives and ideas,analysis-of the operation of the power and benefits,eventually reveals the factor in the regional environmental change,and to explore impact on people’s livelihood by the flooded areas.Taken the nationalist discourse,the National Government implemented a scorched earth policy But the effect is not obvious.The water environment grew worse and the victims’ livelihood were hard.The puppet attacked the Nationalist governmentr by used of humanitarian crises caused by flooding of the Yellow River,and hoped to force it to surrender in order to achieve public acceptance.In fact,the puppet regime did not lift the Yellow River flood hazard.The UNRRA used the U.S.Aid to close the huayuankou breach in order to accomplish the Yellow River Program by the cooperating of KMT and CPC.The aims of the Yellow River was the the ease the food problems and cooperated the diplomatic policy of U.S.The CPC flowed into the dilemma.The CPC opposed the closure of the dyke.And the other hand,the CPC was agreed to close the breach,with the temtion of he materials and the public opinion.The livelihood was damaged by the change of Yellow River.It had such a profound effect on the lives of refugees,population composition,the system of agriculture,and ecologic structure.The change of the Yellow River Areas reflected the restrictions of nationalism and the war.It means the environmental change was the results of the poer game.This paper breakthrough the single methods of military history,famine history.The paper finds new viewpoint and style of study in some field,in the view of the political social and environmental history,by the use of the archives.These findings demonstrate that various political groups and interest groups waved the name of the country and the people’s livelihood in search for reality or risk-averse.But they damaged the livelihood of the people.