SuitabookEveryday life and practical invention
The book surveys practical and cultural practices in ancient China, including how people dressed, ate, maintained hygiene and approached medicine.
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Jennifer Culp - Author
A lively, fact-focused introduction to everyday life and cultural practices in ancient China, combining deliberately distasteful details with explanations intended to encourage respect for a different time and culture.
A unique overview of the fashion and dress, diet, hygiene, medicine, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Chinese. This entertaining yet informative book details practices that may seem peculiar to today s students, while respectfully contextualizing another culture and time, especially one as ancient, rich, and foundational as that of ancient China. Readers are drawn in by the sometimes distasteful details the fun gross-out factor but also gain an appreciation of the inventiveness, sophistication, and practicality of the ancient Chinese. Overall, this title is a lively exploration of the scientific and cultural practices of a pre-modern civilization. Bibliography, Detailed Table of Contents, For Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Sidebars, Web Sites, Full-color photographs.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA lively, fact-focused introduction to everyday life and cultural practices in ancient China, combining deliberately distasteful details with explanations intended to encourage respect for a different time and culture.
The book surveys practical and cultural practices in ancient China, including how people dressed, ate, maintained hygiene and approached medicine.
Readers are invited to notice practices that may seem peculiar today while considering them within ancient Chinese cultural and historical circumstances.
The book’s stated approach is to contextualise these differences respectfully rather than simply mock them.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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