This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture to be published in the West. From a huge mass of source material, often confusing and obscure, and from first-hand study in China, she brings order and illumination to a crucial area of Chinese technological development. The main body of the book is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated). The concluding section contrasts Europe's Agricultural Revolution with agrarian change in North China in the Han and with the 'Green Revolution' in South China in the Sung. In the theoretical analysis which concludes this section we find a vital contribution to the elucidation of the main question posed by Dr Needham's work: why did the Scientific Revolution which transformed the world take place in Europe and not in China?
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"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
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"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
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Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University
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This second part of the sixth volume of Joeph Needham's great enterprise is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated).
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China is, one might say, the agrarian state par excellence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thieh tha, nung shu, tined harrow, seedling horse, wei thien, pit cultivation, thun thien, traction spades, setaria millet, lei ssu, dyked fields, harvesting knife, thien system, charitable granaries, pharmaceutical natural history, relief granaries, plough design, human traction, agricultural encyclopaedias, dryland cereals, bunded fields, hemp waste, panicum millets, reaping tool, agricultural treatises Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wang Chen, Southeast Asia, Chhi Min Yao Shu, Fan Sheng-Chih, Nung Cheng, Yellow River, Keng Chih Thu, Shih Ching, Warring States, Chia Ssu-Hsieh, Chhi Min Tao Shu, Liu Hsien-Chou, Shih Sheng-Han, West Asia, Far East, Shou Shih Thung Khao, Shih Chhun Chhiu, Central Asia, Ssu Min, Northwest China, Ever-Normal Granaries, Fang Phu, Chhen Tsu-Kuei, Nung Sang Chi Yao, Shuo Wen New!
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China is, one might say, the agrarian state par excellence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thieh tha, nung shu, tined harrow, seedling horse, wei thien, pit cultivation, thun thien, traction spades, setaria millet, lei ssu, dyked fields, harvesting knife, thien system, charitable granaries, pharmaceutical natural history, relief granaries, plough design, human traction, agricultural encyclopaedias, dryland cereals, bunded fields, hemp waste, panicum millets, reaping tool, agricultural treatises Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wang Chen, Southeast Asia, Chhi Min Yao Shu, Fan Sheng-Chih, Nung Cheng, Yellow River, Keng Chih Thu, Shih Ching, Warring States, Chia Ssu-Hsieh, Chhi Min Tao Shu, Liu Hsien-Chou, Shih Sheng-Han, West Asia, Far East, Shou Shih Thung Khao, Shih Chhun Chhiu, Central Asia, Ssu Min, Northwest China, Ever-Normal Granaries, Fang Phu, Chhen Tsu-Kuei, Nung Sang Chi Yao, Shuo Wen New!
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