Are you looking for information on a specific famine? China, unfortunately, has had its fair share of famines in the past. If you need primary sources in English, Chinese government documents, newspapers, journals etc are obviously off the table. However, in the past two centuries, China has had a number of English-language newspapers as well as missionary journals. One of the biggest English-language newspapers was The North China Daily (founded as The North China Herald). They ran a lot of editorials during the "Great North China Famine" from 1876-1879. One of the largest missionary journals in China was the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal. You could also look into foreign newspapers that ran during times of famine. I'll list a few here.

"THE CHINA FAMINE RELIEF FUND." 1889.The Graphic 40 (1) (Dec 28): 775.

The Graphic was a newspaper based in London. They reported on the relief effort taking place during the Great North China Famine.

Speer, Robert E. 1907. "SEVERE FAMINE IN CHINA.: AN APPEAL FROM THE MISSIONARIES FOR A RELIEF FUND." New York Observer and Chronicle (1833-1912), Jan 10, 57.

This is a piece by Robert Speer in the New York Observer and Chronicle where he reprints an appeal made by missionaries in China that was originally printed in The North China Herald

Some good secondary sources in English on various 19th and 20th century famines in China:

Dikötter, Frank. 2010. Mao's great famine: the history of China's most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62. London: Bloomsbury.

This is about the Great Chinese Famine from 1958-62, often called "The Three Years of Difficulties"

Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn and Cormac Ó Gráda. Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China. University of California Press, 2008.

If you need sources on a specific famine I'd be happy to provide some but unfortunately 'famines in China' covers a huge range so I can only offer a few here.