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In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

  
  The Cambridge World History of Food- Rice
During the Eastern Chou Dynasty (255 to 249 B.C.), rice was already the staple food crop in the middle and lower basins of the Yangtze River (Ting 1961).
In 1011—12 the Emperor Chen-Tsung of the Sung Dynasty decreed the shipment of 30,000 bushels of seed from Fukien Province into the lower Yangtze basin because of the grain’s early maturing and drought-escaping characteristics.
Therefore, the labor inputs on water management in Wushih County of Jiangsu Province in the 1920s surpassed those of weeding or transplanting by a factor of two (Amano 1979: 410), whereas in monsoonal Java, the inputs in water management were insignificant (Barker et al.
www.cambridge.org /us/books/kiple/rice.htm   (12114 words)

  
 Notebook
Utility ware moulds [baking dishes, etc.] of cream or buff clays with transparent glaze ranging from pale straw colour to deep yellow; it became Rockingham [q.v.] when given a mottled brown-manganese colouring.
Red or brown unglazed stoneware made at Yi-Hsing [Kiangsi Province] from the latter years of the Ming dynasty onwards.
Celadon ware with grey porcellaneous body and thin, pale, greyish-green, or buff glaze, made in Chekiang Province from about the third to eleventh centuries.
www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/DecorativeAA/PGlossary7.htm   (1672 words)

  
 Cannabis
Painted pottery from Honan province belonging to the Neolithic Yang-shao culture (c.
Pieces of what are thought to be hemp cloth have been found on the inside of a jar belonging to a Neolithic culture at a site in the western province of Gansu (2150-1780 BC).
Other probably finds of hemp fragments dated to the Chinese Neolithic period have been discovered at a site in Chekiang province.
www.marijauna.org /hist   (4422 words)

  
 Kronos: 1940-present
Although Military Unarmed Combat Wing was closed in 1996, the Australian military continued to conduct military unarmed combatives at unit level into the early 21st century.
The Japanese Army intentionally introduces typhus, cholera, and the bubonic plague into Chekiang Province, where it was then involved in fighting the Nationalist Chinese.
In the city of Yenan, in Shensi Province, 1,300 Communist Chinese athletes compete in basketball, volleyball, track-and-field, swimming, and military events.
www.ejmas.com /kronos/NewHist1940.htm   (20251 words)

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