Comparative "genocide" numbers in perspective

[Nathan Newman]

I've been reading Jaques Gernet's excellent HISTORY OF CHINESE
CIVILIZATION and I thought folks would be interested in some numbers he
cites on the effects of disasters in the 19th century.  He notes that
these disasters, whether floods or droughts were so devastating because of
the poverty induced by Western exploitation. He notes that one drought in
northern China in 1876-79 killed nine to thirteen million Chinese while a
whole set of successive disasters killed millions at a shot in different
regions.

--Nathan Newman