Anhui and Huaihe River Institute of Hydraulic Research

Privatized violence and the making of public concern: the 1922 Fuyang bandit crisis in Republican China

Abstract The 1922 seizure of Fuyang, Anhui Province, by the “Old Foreigner” (Laoyangren) bandit clique exposed the catastrophic consequences of localized military privatization during the Beiyang era (1912–1928), a period marked by rapid shifts in provincial control and the absen...

A Two-Stage Machine Learning Framework for High-Resolution Multi-Source Precipitation Fusion in Complex Terrain: A Case Study of Shaoxing, China

High-resolution precipitation fields are essential for flash-flood forecasting and hydrological risk management, especially in small and medium-sized basins, yet single-source precipitation products often show limited accuracy over complex terrain. This study develops a two-stage...