Explorations: War and Peace: Chinese culture: Chinese agriculture

Duration: 15 mins 36 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Standing in a rice field in China, Christopher Cullen describes the great move south between the seventh and tenth centuries in China, and the expansion of wet rice cultivation. Some of the effects of growing rice on the development of machinery and industrialization are discussed.
 
Created: 2018-03-11 16:43
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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