Forsyth, Mark. A Short History of Drunkenness. Viking, 2017. ISBN9780241980101. Supplied185-page PDF.
Drinking legends associate dynastic failure with excess, while ritual drinking and etiquette organize hierarchy and ancestral relations.
Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (Viking, 2017), chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”.
Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (Viking, 2017), chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”.
chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”
Forsyth, Short History of Drunkenness, chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”.
chap. 6, “Ancient Chinese Drinking”
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Founding-emperor stories are marked as legends; jiu does not map neatly to English wine or beer. Normative bans are not direct measurements of actual consumption.
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