A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
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January 1, 2013
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Silbey, The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, 2012
January 1, 2012
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Seung-joon Lee, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton, 2011
January 1, 2011
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Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, 2008
January 1, 2008
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Isett, State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862, 2007
January 1, 2007
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Tsu, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937, 2005
January 1, 2005
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Bakken, ed. Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China, 2005.
January 1, 2005
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Tracy and Rangow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West, 2003.
January 1, 2003
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Svensson, Debating Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political History, 2002
January 1, 2002
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