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Keshan Disease

Yiming Xia

Yiming Xia

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Discovery and Characteristics of the Disease Keshan disease (KD) is a unique endemic cardiomyopathy in China with high incidence and mortality. Its etiology and pathogenesis...

Dissolved in Liquor and Life

Astrid Møller-Olsen

Astrid Møller-Olsen

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Commensality : From Everyday Food to Feast

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The Chinese writer Mo Yan (莫言1955–) is often categorized as belonging to the new historicist trend in fiction (新历史主义小说). This literary current, which evolved in China in the 1970s, viewed fiction and history as related subjects and merged...

Ducks

Rosemary Luff

Rosemary Luff

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...The mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, is the most ubiquitous taxon in the subfamily Anatinae of the family Anatidae. It is the ancestor of most domestic ducks, the males of which still sport the ancestral curling feathers of the upper tail...

Yüan Mei

Herbert A. Giles

Herbert A. Giles

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Food History: Critical and Primary Sources : Global Contact and Early Industrialization

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Yüan Mei (1715–1797) is beyond all question the most popular writer of modern times. At the early age of nine he was inspired with a deep love for poetry, and soon became an adept at the art. Graduating in 1739, he was shortly afterwards...

Artists and Farmers: Food Activism in Urban and Rural China

Michael Leung

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Michael Leung

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Zhao Kunfang

Zhao Kunfang

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Jay Brown

Jay Brown

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Food and Museums

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Artists as farmers, artists on land, artists as food-and-land activists are all a part of a world-wide phenomenon connected to urbanization and food movements. On many continents artists and farmers find themselves on the economic...

Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in Maoist China

James Watson

James Watson

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The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Discussions Feeding the Revolution: Public Mess Halls and Coercive Commensality in of food in China usually focus on high cuisine and delicacies associated with regional preferences. This essay deals with low...

The Origins and Dispersal of Rice Cultivation

Charles Higham

Charles Higham

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Tracey L.-D. Lu

Tracey L.-D. Lu

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Food History: Critical and Primary Sources : Origins

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the five major crops in the world and a staple food for more than 30% of the world population. Yet the question of where, when, why and how the domestication of rice originated has been, and still...

Food Prejudices and Taboos

Louis E. Grivetti

Louis E. Grivetti

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Over the past 2,000 years, scholars have produced a vast literature on food prejudices and taboos. This literature, however, is complicated by confusing etymology and indiscriminate or inconsistent application of several terms, such as food...

Tibet

Jennifer Hostetter

Jennifer Hostetter

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 3 : Asia and Oceania

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview Tibet is an autonomous region of southwestern China (since 1950) that borders the nations of India, Nepal, Burma, and Bhutan. With an area of 471,700 square miles, it occupies most of the landmass...

Playing with Food: Performance, Food, and the Aesthetics of Artificiality in the Sung and Yuan

Stephen H. West

Stephen H. West

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Food History: Critical and Primary Sources : Classical and Postclassical Eras

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In one of the finest opening passages found in an academic book, George Steiner wrote, “We speak still of ‘sunrise’ and ‘sunset’. We do so as if the Copernican model of the solar system had not replaced, ineradicably, the Ptolemaic. Vacant...