Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "1931年江淮水災" in Chinese language version.
The 1931 flood killed 15 times the number of people lost in the Indonesian tsunamis of December 2004, and yet scarcely a word has been written of it. History focused instead on other disasters that year. China’s attention was on a civil war between the Communists and Nationalists; the Japanese were invading in the North, while the world was deep into the Great Depression.
8月25日,由高邮市纪委、市委宣传部、扬州市收藏协会、高邮市水利局和档案局共同主办的“勿忘历史,兴我水利--1931年里下河特大水灾老报展”在高邮市档案馆开展,高邮市人大常委会主任张秋红、市委副书记张新钢等领导出席开展仪式.//本次報展展出的藏品主要由高郵市著名收藏家朱軍華提供,記載了高郵20世紀最嚴重的自然災害--1931年里下河地區7萬多人死於水災。報展全方位還原了1931年高郵特大水災的成因、運河決堤的任以及國民政府的腐敗.
The 1931 flood killed 15 times the number of people lost in the Indonesian tsunamis of December 2004, and yet scarcely a word has been written of it. History focused instead on other disasters that year. China’s attention was on a civil war between the Communists and Nationalists; the Japanese were invading in the North, while the world was deep into the Great Depression.