Chinese famine of 1907

The Chinese famine of 1907 was a crisis in northern China.[2][3][4] The famine was triggered by heavy rains over the 1906 growing season.[1]

Chinese famine of 1907
This famine victim in China, approximately 1907, became a beggar on the street.[1]
Country	Qing China
Location	Anhui, Honan and Kiang-Su provinces[1]
Period	1907
Total deaths	up to 25 million
Death rate	10%
Observations	excessive rains during growing season of 1906[1]
Relief	Thousands of tons of food donated (mostly private donations)[1]
Consequences	Contribution to unrest leading to the Xinhai revolution[1]

Bill Kte'pi estimated that 10 percent of the population of northern Jiangsu and parts of central China may have died, and put the death toll as possibly being as high as 25 million people, which would make it is the second-worst famine in recorded history.[3][4] The Argus, a contemporary Australian newspaper, likewise reported on 22 February 1907 that "Ten millions of Chinese" were suffering, and that half of them were doomed to death unless measures would be adopted to save them.[5]

On 26 June 1907, The Argus reported that the crisis was at an end.[6]