Biographies of Chinese Thinkers Series: A Biography of Jia Sixie and Wang Zhen

Author: Guo Wentao, Yan Huoqi
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: Jia Sixie was a famous agricultural scientist of the Later Wei Dynasty and wrote the earliest and most complete agricultural masterpiece in China, The Essential Techniques of Farming. This book comprehensively and systematically summarized the scientific and technological achievements in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River from the Han Dynasty to the Later Wei Dynasty. It is known abroad as an encyclopedic agricultural masterpiece. A Critical Biography of Jia Sixie conducts an in-depth and systematic exploration of Jia Sixie's life and times, his attitude towards writing, his agricultural philosophy, his agricultural economic thought, his agricultural scientific thought, as well as the research overview and influence of Jia Sixie and The Essential Techniques of Farming at home and abroad. From this, one can gain a comprehensive view of Jia Sixie as an agricultural thinker.