SuitabookThe totally gross history of ancient China
Jennifer Culp
- Reading
- If your reader is sensitive to bodily details, preview the contents or dip into selected sections first. Use the glossary, index and further-information material to follow topics that prompt curiosity.
- Themes
- Everyday life and practical invention: The book surveys practical and cultural practices in ancient China, including how people dressed, ate, maintained hygiene and approached medicine. Its stated angle is informational while also highlighting inventiveness, sophistication and practicality in a pre-modern civilisation.
- Encountering cultural difference: Readers are invited to notice practices that may seem peculiar today while considering them within ancient Chinese cultural and historical circumstances. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- The book’s stated approach is to contextualise these differences respectfully rather than simply mock them.