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3 - Crop Production in the Guanzhong Basin

from Part II - Food Production and Foodways

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Alice Yao  and
Wengcheong Lam
Alice Yao
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Wengcheong Lam
Affiliation:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Summary

Chapter 3 looks at the relationship between the state and its imperial subjects through the politics of food production in the core. Pairing historical sources with the archaeology of spatial infrastructures (i.e., granaries and irrigation systems), this chapter evaluates how the state’s active involvement in intensifying crop production also led to the development of new techniques for transforming fields and imperial subjects into legible units.

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state activismtime-space coordinationirrigation infrastructureridge-and-furrow system
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The Archaeology of Han China , pp. 91 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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