Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Usage -- Introduction -- Assembling a Food System -- Why Study the Chinese Food System? -- The World-SystemModel -- Diffusion, Cultural Choice, and Chinese Distinctiveness -- Chapter 1: Prehistoric Origins Across Eurasia -- China Before Agriculture -- A Bit About Physical Ancestry -- A Bit About Languages -- The Origins of Agriculture -- Chapter 2: China's Early Agriculture -- The Dawn of Domesticated Grain -- Early Farming in China -- The Later Neolithic -- Animals -- Meanwhile in Central Asia . . . Another Neolithic -- Chapter 3: The Origins of Chinese Civilization -- Civilization? -- The Earliest Dynasties -- Later Zhou and the Warring States -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Development of China's Sustainability During Zhou and Han -- Ideology and Behavior -- Cosmology -- Philosophy and Politics: Origins of Chinese Traditions -- Concepts of Nature -- Words for Knowing -- Morality -- The Systematization of Environmental Management in Han -- Chapter 5: Dynastic Consolidation Under Han -- A Summary of Han History -- Han Foodways -- Han Food and Medicine -- Han Central Asia -- Chapter 6: Foods from the West: Medieval China -- Three Kingdoms and Northern and Southern Dynasties -- Sui and Tang -- Tang Environment and Farming -- Tang Food -- Tang Culture and Poetry -- Central Asia in Tang Times -- Definitive Shaping of the Food System: Song Its Neighbors -- Liao and Jin -- Chapter 7: The Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty -- The Mongol Empire and Knowledge Flows Within It -- Mongol Rule in China -- Food Under the Mongols -- The Huihui Yaofang -- Medicinals: Numbers and Classification -- Places of Origin of Major Medicinals -- The Moral: Chinese and Western Medicines United -- The Yinshan Zhengyao -- During and After . . . -- The End of the Mongol Information Superhighway.

Chapter 8: Shifting Grounds in Ming -- Ming and Impossible Rule -- Ming Fails in the West but Thrives in the Southeast -- Ming Learning and Development -- Chapter 9: Overview: Imperial China Managing Landscapes -- Patterns and Pasts -- Environmental History -- Explaining Foodways -- Forests -- Modern Folk Views Continued Much of the Old Ideology -- A Summary of the Old Ways -- Appendix I: Conservation Among China's Neighbors -- Appendix II: An Introduction to Central Asian Food -- Bibliography -- Index.

Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China provides an account of the development of food systems, agriculture, and trade in China's imperial era, connecting those foodways to the global phenomenon of Chinese cuisine today.

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