Joseph Needham, Christian Daniels, Nicholas K Menzies

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Volume 6. Part III of Science and Civilisation in China contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early twentieth century. The second, by Nicholas K. Menzies, is a history of forestry in China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 770
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 198mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521419994
• ISBN-10: 0521419999
• Artikelnr.: 26965344

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Joseph Needham
Section 42a: Agro-Industries: Sugar Cane Technology: (a) Introduction: general characteristics of agro-industries in China
(b) Sugar cane and sugar: consumption and production in China
(c) Sugar cane clones, species and origins
(d) Sugar cane agriculture
(e) Cane sugar manufacture
(f) Transfer of Chinese sugar-making technology to East and South-East Asia
(g) Epilogue and overview
Bibliographies. Section 42b: Forestry: (a) Introduction
(b) Taxonomy and identification of major forestry species
(c) Silviculture and forest management
(d) Harvesting and transport
(e) Premonitions of ecology
(f) Forestry in Chinese society
Bibliography
General index.