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Agricultural works, the books and chapters about agricultural production technology in a broad sense and knowledge directly related to agricultural production, are on the theme of producing grains, vegetables, oil, fiber, special crops, fruit trees, sericulture, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, forests, flowers, etc. This chapter, in a chronological order, introduces in detail the Chinese agricultural works from the Pre-Qin Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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Zeng, X. (2021). An Overview of Official and Private Agricultural Books Through Chinese History. In: Jiang, X. (eds) The High Tide of Science and Technology Development in China . History of Science and Technology in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7847-2_3
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