Volume 43, Number 2 · February 1, 1996
Is There Enough Chinese Food?
By Vaclav Smil
Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
by Lester R. Brown
Norton, 163 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Many Americans think they know something about Chinese food. But very few know anything about food in China, about the ways in which it is grown, stored, distributed, eaten, and wasted, about its effects on the country's politics, and about its importance to the rest of the world.
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