A Preliminary Investigation of the Floods in 1823 and Their Socioeconomic Impacts in China

The article gives a tentative description of the serious floods and their socioeconomic impacts in North China and Lower reach Yangtze River basin during the third year of Emperor Dao–guang’s reign (1823) in Qing Dynasty. Also, the article makes effort to analyse this example in causes and mechanism of the disaster formation process, which would be of interest in formulating the disaster mitigation strategies for China