{"id":201,"date":"2007-01-11T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2007\/01\/pigs\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:40:08","slug":"pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/01\/pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many pigs were there in China during the warlord era?<\/p>\n<p>I came across the wonderful site <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/\">Strange Maps<\/a>, and one of their offerings was a 1922 map of world hog production<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"World O' Pigs\" src=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/files\/2007\/01\/hogs.gif\" alt=\"World O' Pigs\" width=\"728\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/09\/58-its-a-pigs-world\/\">text says<\/a> that this is a map of industrial-scale pig breeding. China seems a bit over-represented here. Yes, every farm in China should have a couple pigs. So should every farm in Ohio and Korea, but the densities there seem much lower, and it can&#8217;t just be population. Were Chinese really eating all that much <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelchinaguide.com\/images\/chinese\/huiguorou.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"38\" height=\"14\" \/>? Or was there a big export industry? Either would be interesting as the first would be a sign of a surprising prosperity, and the later a sign of China getting an export industry right in the 1920s. Does anyone know if there is anything out there on Late Imperial\/Republican pigs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many pigs were there in China during the warlord era? I came across the wonderful site Strange Maps, and one of their offerings was a 1922 map of world hog production The text says that this is a map of industrial-scale pig breeding. China seems a bit over-represented here. Yes, every farm in China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,126,63,155,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-general","category-japan","category-republican","category-social-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9yoH3-pigs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}