This book explores how religious culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses.

Roel Sterckx is Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His publications include The Animal and the Daemon in Early China (2002).

1. Customs and cuisine; 2. Cooking the world; 3. Sacrifice and sense; 4. The economics of sacrifice; 5. Sages, spirits, and senses.