Food, health, and nutrition in Chinese history

This essay explores the relationships between food and health in Chinese history, from ancient times to the present. It briefly reviews how historians have written about dietary knowledge in China's past, from a midcentury focus on discoveries that prefigured those of modern nutrition science t...

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Main Author: Smith, Hilary A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: History compass
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 1
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