齊民要術 (Qimin Yaoshu: Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People) Vol 9

Name: 齊民要術 (Qimin Yaoshu: Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People) Vol 9
Author: Jia Sixie

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Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People, Volume 9

齊民要術 (Qimin Yaoshu: Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People) Vol 9

Jia Sixie

Chinese

Jia Sixie (賈思勰) c. 533-544 CE · published 1778

84 pages

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Chinese Classics Natural Philosophy Chinese Natural Knowledge East Asia

First Complete Translation

Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.

While the 'Qimin Yaoshu' is a seminal work in Chinese agricultural history and has been extensively excerpted and summarized in English, no complete, cover-to-cover translation of the entire text or specifically of Volume 9 exists. Shih Sheng-han's 1962 publication is a 'preliminary survey' and summary, while H.T. Huang's contribution to the 'Science and Civilisation in China' series (2000) provides extensive thematic translations of the food science sections (which correspond to Volume 9) but does not constitute a formal, complete translation of the volume itself.

Related translations found:

A Preliminary Survey of the Book 'Ch'i Min Yao Shu': An Agricultural Encyclopaedia of the 6th Century, trans. Shih Sheng-han (1962) [partial] source

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 5: Fermentations and Food Science, trans. H.T. Huang (Huang Xingzong) (2000) [excerpts] source

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Step into the 6th-century kitchen of a master agronomist where culinary art meets rigorous material science. Discover how the ancient Chinese perfected everything from amber-glazed roasts that 'dissolve like thin snow' to the cosmological symbolism of the seasonal dumpling.