FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT IN EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHINA

Book ID/图书代码： 13567914B73188

English Summary/英文概要： Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted to local agriculture and taste profiles. To trace the roots of Chinese foodways, one must look back to traditional food systems before the early days of globalization.

Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China traces the development of the food systems that coincided with China’s emergence as an empire. Before extensive trade and cultural exchange with Europe was established, Chinese farmers and agriculturalists developed systems that used resources in sustainable and efficient ways, permitting intensive and productive techniques to survive over millennia. Fields, gardens, semiwild lands, managed forests, and specialized agricultural landscapes all became part of an integrated network that produced maximum nutrients with minimal input—though not without some environmental cost. E. N. Anderson examines premodern China’s vast, active network of trade and contact, such as the routes from Central Asia to Eurasia and the slow introduction of Western foods and medicines under the Mongol Empire. Bringing together a number of new findings from archaeology, history, and field studies of environmental management, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China provides an updated picture of language relationships, cultural innovations, and intercultural exchanges.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 中国的食物闻名于世，世界各地遍布着各式各样的中式餐厅，各种中式食物也遍布全球。中国各地的食物特色鲜明。为了追溯中国食物的根源，必须研究全球化之前的传统食物系统。

本书追溯了中国食物系统的发展过程。在与欧洲建立商贸及文化交流之前，中国的农民便已经发展出了成熟的种植体系，一直流传至今。各种类型的土地构成了一个综合网络，以最少的投入实现最大的产出，当然过程中也必须付出一些环境代价。作者研究了古代中国庞大而活跃的商贸网络，如从中亚至欧洲的贸易路线、西方食物及药物的逐渐引入等。本书结合了一系列考古学、历史、环境管理田野调查的最新发现，为读者提供了有关语言关系、文化创新、跨文化交流方面的最新知识。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“本书可以说是一部巨著，详细介绍了中国的基本地理环境、气候和地形带来的优势和局限、人们对自然环境的保护和破坏，以及上述因素对饮食文化所造成的影响。”——Paul Freedman，耶鲁大学

"This is a marvelous book, a long-view description of China’s basic geography, the advantages and constraints imposed by climate and terrain, human conservation and despoliation of the natural environment, and the effect of all of these on food customs."—Paul Freedman, Yale University

"Anderson’s book is, as surely intended, provocative, challenging much inherited wisdom and at the same time extremely wide-ranging, placing China’s foodways in a broad comparative framework."—Thomas Allsen, Professor Emeritus, College of New Jersey

About the Author/作者介绍： E. N. Anderson是加州大学的人类学荣誉教授，著有多本著作，包括《人人都要吃：理解食物和文化》。

E. N. Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, and author of numerous books, including Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture.

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