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SUMMARY:The Frustrating Geography of Bees in Chinese History - Dr David Pa
 ttinson\, University of Leeds
DTSTART:20190315T131500Z
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CONTACT:Emily Tilby
DESCRIPTION:In comparison to Europe and the Middle East\, for example\, be
 es\, beekeeping and bee products have had a relatively low profile in Chin
 ese history. They were all present in texts by the early imperial period\,
  and knowledge about bees and beekeeping would grow\, but they did not mak
 e the same mark in China as they did in some other cultures. While there i
 s a good deal of scholarly and scientific interest in bees in contemporary
  China\, there has been less research into bees in China’s past.\nThis p
 aper will seek to describe some of the textual evidence from Chinese histo
 ry for human interaction with bees and human use of bee products\, focusin
 g mainly on the nature of this evidence and its geographical distribution.
  It will show that the evidence before about the tenth century is patchy\,
  and while bees and bee products are often mentioned in texts from the ten
 th century onward\, the evidence is frequently tantalising\, but there ten
 ds to be not enough of it to paint a more certain picture of the understan
 ding and use of bee products across China in the pre-modern period.
LOCATION:South Lecture Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Resear
 ch\, Downing Site
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