The couple have jointly produced
many written works, one of them their
translation of Franklin H. King’s Farmers of Forty Centuries: Permanent Agriculture in China, Japan and Korea.
It mainly discusses the farming model
of oriental societies, and was one of
the main reasons for the appearance
of organic agriculture, Shi said. Over a
century ago, as an agricultural offiial of
the United States, Franklin H. King paid
a visit to Shanghai. He was astonished at
the sight early each morning of boats on
the Huangpu River shipping Shanghai
residents’ excrement to the suburban
areas for use as manure.