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The Effects of Rice Agriculture on Prehistoric Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Sarah M. Nelson
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Rice was first introduced from China 1122 B.C., but millet had already been grown there for many centuries.” When Hulbert (1906:15) wrote these words in the early years of this century, he presumably followed some written or oral tradition regarding Kija's (Chi-tzu), the legendary agnate of the last Shang king, bringing rice to Korea. It is interesting that there was a tradition that millet cultivation preceded rice, which came from northern China at approximately 1100 B.C. Seventy-five years after Hulbert recorded the tradition in English, archaeological research has demonstrated that millet did precede rice in Korea, and that the timing of the introduction of rice at the end of the Shang dynasty is probably too late rather than too early.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , May 1982 , pp. 531 - 543
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982

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