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This book uses multidisciplinary theories and methods, focusing on the interactive relationship between natural disasters and rural society in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, to reveal the diffusion process, evolution rules and characteristics of disasters at all levels of rural society, the mechanisms, characteristics and effectiveness of government and private responses to disasters, as well as the interaction mechanism between disasters and rural society, as well as its breadth and depth. Through research, we strive to advance the study of disaster history in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in a solid manner and make it a typical case for the study of the interaction between disasters and rural society. At the same time, in-depth study and correct understanding of the causes and characteristics of natural disasters in the Yangtze River Basin, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and exploring and grasping the laws and trends of disaster occurrence and development will have important demonstration value and reference significance for disaster prevention and relief in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the construction of new rural areas, and even the exploration of solutions to the "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" issues.