千禾学术论坛之三十三 中华帝国如何养活数量庞大的人口？
How Could Imperial China Feed So Many People? 中华帝国如何养活数量庞大的人口？
发布人：高级管理员
发布日期：2013-01-04
主题
How Could Imperial China Feed So Many People? 中华帝国如何养活数量庞大的人口？
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活动地址
中山大学南校区小礼堂
主讲人
E.N. Anderson（加州大学河滨分校人类学系）
嘉宾简介：E. N. 安德森，加州大学河滨分荣休教授，1967年于加州大学伯克利分校获得人类学博士学位。安德森教授的研究涉及民族生物学、文化生态学、政治生态学与医学人类学，涵盖香港、英属哥伦比亚、加利福尼亚以及墨西哥尤卡坦半岛等地区。其著作包括《中国食物》（耶鲁大学出版社，1988）、《心之生态学》（牛津大学出版社，1996）、《尤卡坦玛雅社群的政治生态学》（亚利桑那大学出版社，2005）以及《寻找生态乌托邦》（普雷格出版社，2010）。
内容简介：三千多年来，依靠发展不断完善的集约农业，中国成功地养活了日益增长的人口。1900年，全国人口大约4亿，如今已达13亿之多。其中，生物技术的革新最为重要，包括良种培育、水利灌溉、优化耕作、病虫害防治等。其次，治理行为与政策至关紧要，尤其是坚守以农为本的基本国策，以及持续刊印、推广农学手册。第三、个体对农业同样重视，并在一定程度上使之与自然环境保持着平衡与可持续之关系。最后、有关政策的哲学、意识形态与宇宙观背景亦甚为有趣，值得关注。E. N. 安德森教授将在千禾学术论坛与大家共同探讨这一问题。欢迎参加！
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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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