At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine. Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern economies and healthy nations. Soybeans, protein-packed and domestically grown, were a common food in China, and soybean milk (doujiang) was poised for reinve...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine. Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern economies and healthy nations. Soybeans, protein-packed and domestically grown, were a common food in China, and soybean milk (doujiang) was poised for reinve...(展开全部)

凯瑟琳·麦考利夫（Kathleen McAuliffe） 一位获奖无数的美国科普作家，其文章发表在十多本美国国家杂志报刊上，包括《纽约时报》《洛杉矶时报》《发现》等，并荣获“最佳美国科学和自然写作奖”。她于2012年在《大西洋月刊》上发表的专题文章《你的猫如何令你疯狂》，成为该杂志史上阅读量排名第二的文章。 袁祎 中山大学生物学学士，北京大学硕士。译有《生命是什么》等。

凯瑟琳·麦考利夫（Kathleen McAuliffe） 一位获奖无数的美国科普作家，其文章发表在十多本美国国家杂志报刊上，包括《纽约时报》《洛杉矶时报》《发现》等，并荣获“最佳美国科学和自然写作奖”。她于2012年在《大西洋月刊》上发表的专题文章《你的猫如何令你疯狂》，成为该杂志史上阅读量排名第二的文章。 袁祎 中山大学生物学学士，北京大学硕士。译有《生命是什么》等。