Agricultural Diffusion Around the World
Organizers:
Siming Wang | Professor and Dean of the Institution of Chinese Agricultural Civilization, Nanjing Agricultural University – Director of the Institute of Agricultural Heritage, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Frederic Davis | Professor and Chairman of the Department of History, Purdue University, United States of America
Program
Chair: Siming Wang
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Morning Session | 09:00-11:00
Venue: NHRF Auditorium
Wang Jianan and Wang Hui | Fishing Gear, Fishing Boat, and Marine Culture: the evolution of sea farming technology
Yu Dong | The slow adoption of wheat agriculture in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age China
Chen Zhi-Guo | Exploitation, Protection, Development, and Utilization of Litchi Resources in Zengcheng from the Perspective of Agricultural Cultural Heritage
Han Ning-yu, Zhang Zhe and Siming Wang | Art wake up native land: the wisdom road that inherits the spirit of agricultural culture
Noon Session | 11:30-13:30
Venue: NHRF Auditorium
Siming Wang | China’s Four Great Inventions in Agriculture: The influence of Chinese Traditional Farming upon the Development of the World
Wei Luling | The Distribution, Knowledge, and Usage of Giant Silkworms in South China
Wenliang Hu | Introduction, Diffusion and Its Driving Factors of Jackfruits Production in China
Xin-Sheng Li | The Introduction and Spread of the Pumpkin in China
Afternoon Session | 15:30-17:30
Venue: NHRF Auditorium
Yongsheng Tong | On the Structure of Animal community and Ecological Environment in Inner Mongolia petroglyph: the case of comparison between Yinshan and Ulanqab petroglyph
Ni Genjin | On the Research and Spreading of Cassava in South China During the Anti-Japanese War
Liu Xinqiu | The Origin of Tea and Diffusion of Tea Drinking Culture in the World
Siming Wang and Xinsheng Li | Sources and Dissemination of information about Chinese Deforestation in the American President’s Annual Message to Congress in 1908
About the Symposium
Agriculture was the first important breakthrough in science and technology during the evolution of ancient civilization. As a matter of fact, all the ancient civilizations had been based upon the agricultural systems. However, these farming activities had not appeared until ten thousand years ago. Most of crop growing and animal breeding were results of diffusion of these technologies. To deal with the process of these diffusions and the interrelation of different agricultural systems is an important way to enhance our recognition of the traditional civilizations and the basic structure of the world from the very beginning.