Chinese famine of 1906–1907

Chinese famine of 1906–1907
Chinese famine of 1906–1907
	A beggar on the street in circa 1907.
Country	China
Location	Northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu
Period	1906–1907
Total deaths	20 million - 25 million
Theory	1906 China floods, poor harvest
Relief	Thousands of tons of food donated via private donations
Consequences	Contributed to the causes of the 1911 Revolution The turmoil of the period caused the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the end of Imperial China as a whole;

The Chinese famine of 1906–1907 struck the middle and lower course of Huai River in Qing Dynasty from Autumn 1906 to Spring 1907, administratively in northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu provinces. This Chinese famine was directly caused by the 1906 China floods (April–October 1906), which hit the Huai River particularly hard and destroyed both the summer and autumn harvest.

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