| Title | A History of Soy in China |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | From Weedy Bean to Global Commodity |
| Contributor | Brian Lander(author) |
| Thomas David DuBois(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx.8 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Brian Lander; Thomas David DuBois). |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2022-11-01 |
| Page range | pp. 29–47 |
| Print length | 19 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Brian Lander is assistant professor of history at Brown University in the USA, where he is also a fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He has published on various topics in the environmental history of premodern China, including agriculture, water control, politics, and animals. He is the author of The Kings Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale University Press, 2021).
Thomas David DuBois is a historian of modern China, and Distinguished Professor in Beijing Normal and Hebei Universities. He is the author of three books on religion and law, including Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia (Cambridge 2017), which was centred on China's Northeast. His current research on China's food industries is based on years of fieldwork in farms, dairies, and restaurants across China, and has thus far produced about a dozen journal articles. He is currently finishing a book that recreates China's long food history as a series of seven banquets.