Biographies of Jia Sixie and Wang Zhen

Author: Guo Wentao
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: Jia Sixie was a famous agricultural scientist of the Northern Wei Dynasty, authoring the earliest and most complete agricultural masterpiece in China, The Essential Techniques of Farming. This book comprehensively and systematically summarizes 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 Northern Wei Dynasty. It is known internationally as an encyclopedic agricultural masterpiece. A Critical Biography of Jia Sixie delves deeply and systematically into Jia Sixie's life and times, his attitude towards writing, his agricultural philosophy, his agricultural economic thought, his agricultural scientific thought, as well as an overview of domestic and international research on Jia Sixie and The Essential Techniques of Farming and its influence. From this, one can gain a comprehensive view of Jia Sixie as an agricultural thinker.