千禾學術論壇之三十三 中華帝國如何養活數量龐大的人口？
How Could Imperial China Feed So Many People? 中華帝國如何養活數量龐大的人口？
發布人：高級管理員
發布日期：2013-01-04
主題
How Could Imperial China Feed So Many People? 中華帝國如何養活數量龐大的人口？
活動時間
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活動地址
中山大學南校區小禮堂
主講人
E.N. Anderson（加州大學河濱分校人類學系）
嘉賓簡介：E. N. 安德森，加州大學河濱分榮休教授，1967年于加州大學伯克利分校獲得人類學博士學位。安德森教授的研究涉及民族生物學、文化生态學、政治生态學與醫學人類學，涵蓋香港、英屬哥倫比亞、加利福尼亞以及墨西哥尤卡坦半島等地區。其著作包括《中國食物》（耶魯大學出版社，1988）、《心之生态學》（牛津大學出版社，1996）、《尤卡坦瑪雅社群的政治生态學》（亞利桑那大學出版社，2005）以及《尋找生态烏托邦》（普雷格出版社，2010）。
内容簡介：三千多年來，依靠發展不斷完善的集約農業，中國成功地養活了日益增長的人口。1900年，全國人口大約4億，如今已達13億之多。其中，生物技術的革新最為重要，包括良種培育、水利灌溉、優化耕作、病蟲害防治等。其次，治理行為與政策至關緊要，尤其是堅守以農為本的基本國策，以及持續刊印、推廣農學手冊。第三、個體對農業同樣重視，并在一定程度上使之與自然環境保持着平衡與可持續之關系。最後、有關政策的哲學、意識形态與宇宙觀背景亦甚為有趣，值得關注。E. N. 安德森教授将在千禾學術論壇與大家共同探讨這一問題。歡迎參加！
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E. N. Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967. He has done research on ethnobiology, cultural ecology, political ecology, and medical anthropology, in several areas, especially Hong Kong, British Columbia, California, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. His books include The Food of China (Yale University Press. 1988), Ecologies of the Heart (Oxford University Press, 1996), Political Ecology of a Yucatec Maya Community (University Press of Arizona Press, 2005) and The Pursuit of Ecotopia (Praeger, 2010).
Abstract：Over 3000 years, China succeeded in feeding an increasing population, which reached 400 million by 1900 and is now about 1 ¼ billion. This was accomplished by developing an increasingly intensive agriculture. The most important developments were in biological technology: better crops, better irrigation, better cropping systems, better pest control, and the like. However, government actions and policies were critical, especially the consistent support for agriculture as the basis of the state, and the consistent publication of agricultural manuals and texts. Private individuals also respected agriculture, and kept it in some degree of balance and sustainability relative to the natural environment. The philosophical, ideological and cosmological background to this policy is of interest.
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