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in 1048.Elvin, Mark & Liu Cuirong (eds.) ''Studies in Environment and History:''
Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History
', p. 555. Cambridge Uni. Press, 1998. . Accessed 15 Oct. 2011. The damage occasioned by the 1034 flood had not yet been repaired, and the new flood was even worse, reducing the income of the rich northern provinces to one-fifth their pre-1034 level.

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