Black Death in China?

by HadoSamaAOE

The Plauge is burned into Western history for it's extreme impact on European populations. Interestingly it originated in China. What impact did it have on China at the time?

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This is a question that comes up here fairly regularly, and the answer is that there is considerable dispute nowadays as to whether the Black Death originated in, or ever actually reached, China; an alternate origin in a "plague reservoir" close to the Caspian Sea is now considered likely by at least a significant proportion of historians of the pandemic.

These two threads, the first led by me and the second by u/y_sengaku, give more details of the debate:

Why can't I find very much information about the 14th Century black death in Asia?

Why didn’t Asia and Africa experience what Europe did during th Black Death?