{"id":6351,"date":"2015-01-27T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:34:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:34:29","slug":"history-of-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2015\/01\/history-of-pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we seem to be the internet center for Chinese history and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/category\/pigs\/\">pigs<\/a> I thought I would call to your attention <a href=\"http:\/\/dissertationreviews.org\/archives\/10766\"><i>Pigs, Pork, and Ham: The Practice of Pig-Farming and the Consumption of Pork in Ming-Qing China<\/i>, by Chung-Hao Kuo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dissertation Reviews does a nice job of explaining how interesting this dissertation is. Pork of course has a history, and until the Tang lamb was much more common in China than pork. By the Ming production and connoisseurship started to evolve, with Jinhua ham as a key example. &#8221; The trajectory of Jinhua ham thus mirrored that of pork in general: depreciation from an item of medicinal value to rare delicacy and, finally, to commonplace dish (for most varieties).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=11964\">number<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Food-Time-Place-Historical-Association\/dp\/0520283589#reader_0520283589\">recent <\/a>works on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=20003\">food<\/a> in Chinese history, and it is sort of odd that there was not more sooner, given how important food is to Chinese ideas about regional identity. I would guess that gathering sources would be a trick, but it is glad to see people getting beyond that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we seem to be the internet center for Chinese history and pigs I thought I would call to your attention Pigs, Pork, and Ham: The Practice of Pig-Farming and the Consumption of Pork in Ming-Qing China, by Chung-Hao Kuo Dissertation Reviews does a nice job of explaining how interesting this dissertation is. Pork of&#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":[111,123,265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food","category-pigs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1Er","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351","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=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}