Starting in April 1931, China’s Yangtze River basin received far more rain than usual. But the country was focused on civil war, not flood control. Several rivers peaked in August, and in the months following the flood, almost four million people died of drowning, starvation, and disease. (Photo: Jakrit Jiraratwaro)
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