ISBN10: 0300047398, ISBN13: 9780300047394, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. To feed a quarter of the worlds population on only seven percent of the worlds cultivated land and at the same time to have developed a renowned cuisine is perhaps the most exemplary achievement of the Chinese people. What accounts for their success? And what can be learned from it?"Lively and engaging. . . . Food is placed in its contexts, which range from questions of land tenure to those of ritual. It is a book that can be read with pleasure both by amateurs of Chinese cooking and by persons interested in issues of agriculture and nutrition."Ann Waltner, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social ScienceE.N. Andersons comprehensive, entertaining historical and ethnographic account of Chinese food from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century shows how food has been central to Chinese governmental policies, religious rituals, and health practices from earliest times. The historical survey of agricultural and culinary customs, in the first half of the book, offers a wealth of fact and interpretation on such topics as the effect of government policy on agricultural innovation; the relation of medical beliefs to appetizing cuisine; the recycling of waste products on the farm; the traditional absence of food taboos (including the practicality of eating ones pests, or feeding them to pigs and chickens, instead of poisoning them and the ...
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