chimpanzee, (Pan troglodytes), species of ape that, along with the bonobo, is most closely related to humans. Chimpanzees inhabit tropical forests and savannas of equatorial Africa from Senegal in the west to Lake Albert and northwestern Tanzania in the east. Individuals vary considerably in size

Zeravshan Range: …(5,000 metres), the highest being Chimtorga, at 18,009 ft (5,489 metres). The valleys of the Zeravshan Range are semiarid with hot, dry summers and most precipitation falling during winter. Precipitation is greatest at the highest elevations, falling mainly as snow. The vegetation varies from short scrub and grasses at the…

Chimú, South American Indians who maintained the largest and most important political system in Peru before the Inca (q.v.). The distinctive pottery of the Chimú aids in dating Andean civilization in the late periods along the north coast of Peru. They expanded by conquest from Piura to Casma and

Moche, Andean civilization that flourished from the 1st to the 8th century ce on the northern coast of what is now Peru. The name is taken from the great site of Moche, in the river valley of the same name, which appears to have been the capital or chief city of the Moche peoples. Their settlements

chimurenga, Zimbabwean popular music that delivers messages of social and political protest through an amalgam of Western popular styles and assorted musics of southeastern Africa—particularly those featuring the Shona mbira (thumb piano). With a Shona name that translates variously as “collective

Cro-Magnon: …Homo) to have a prominent chin. The brain capacity was about 1,600 cc (100 cubic inches), somewhat larger than the average for modern humans. It is thought that Cro-Magnons were probably fairly tall compared with other early human species.

Chin, group of tribes of Mongol origin, occupying the southernmost part of the mountain ranges separating Myanmar (Burma) from India. Their history from the 17th to the late 19th century was a long sequence of tribal wars and feuds. The first British expedition into the Chin Hills in 1889 was soon

chin cactus, (genus Gymnocalycium), genus of about 50 species of cacti (family Cactaceae), native to South America. Chin cacti are found in warm regions of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. Many natural and cultivated varieties are available and are common ornamentals. The small

Jin dynasty, (1115–1234), dynasty that ruled an empire formed by the Tungus Juchen (or Jurchen) tribes of Manchuria. The empire covered much of Inner Asia and all of present-day North China. Originally subjects of the Liao, an Inner Asian dynasty created in the 10th century by the Khitan tribes,

Jin dynasty, Chinese dynasty that comprises two distinct phases—the Xi (Western) Jin, ruling China from ad 265 to 316/317, and the Dong (Eastern) Jin, which ruled China from ad 317 to 420. The Dong Jin is considered one of the Six Dynasties. In ad 265 a Sima prince, Sima Yan, deposed the last of

Chin Hills, mountainous region in northwestern Myanmar (Burma), extending along the India border and forming the central and widest part of a mountain arc that stretches northward from the Arakan Mountains to the Patkai Range. They vary from 7,000 to 10,000 feet (2,100 to 3,000 metres) and reach a

Jinpingmei, the first realistic social novel to appear in China. It is the work of an unknown author of the Ming dynasty, and its earliest extant version is dated 1617. Two English versions were published in 1939 under the titles The Golden Lotus and Chin P’ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi

Jinpingmei, the first realistic social novel to appear in China. It is the work of an unknown author of the Ming dynasty, and its earliest extant version is dated 1617. Two English versions were published in 1939 under the titles The Golden Lotus and Chin P’ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi

Nizam al-Mulk: …1713 it was conferred on Chīn Qilich Khan (Āṣaf Jāh) by the Mughal emperor Muḥammad Shah and was held by his descendants, the rulers of the princely state of Hyderabad, until the mid-20th century. The head of a ruling family was commonly known as the nizam.

kolp’um: (sŏnggol, or “sacred bone,” and chin’gol, or “true bone”) and six dup’ums (or “head ranks”). The two gols were from the royal and formerly royal families; the sixth dup’um through the fourth were from the general nobility, and the third down to the first from the commoners.

François Billetdoux: Tchin-Tchin (1959; Chin-Chin), his first play to win popular acclaim, traces the decline into alcoholism of a couple brought together by the infidelity of their spouses. In Le Comportement des époux Bredburry (1960; “The Behaviour of the Bredburry Couple”), a wife attempts to sell her husband in…

Jinzhou, former town, southern Liaoning sheng (province), China. Now administratively a district under the city of Dalian, it is situated on Jinzhou Bay, a part of the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli), and on the neck of the Liaodong Peninsula immediately northeast of Dalian. Jinzhou is an important

Jinzhou, city, western Liaoning sheng (province), China. It is strategically situated at the northern end of the narrow coastal plain between the Song Mountains and the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli). A Chinese administration was first established there under the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce) in the 2nd

Jinzhong, city, central Shanxi sheng (province), northeast-central China. It is situated on the Xiao River, about 15 miles (25 km) south of Taiyuan, the provincial capital. Jinzhong was created in 1999 by amalgamating the city of Yuci and Jinzhong prefecture, with the former Yuci becoming a

Jinhua, city, central Zhejiang sheng (province), China. Jinhua is the natural centre of the eastern half of the Jin-Qu (Jinhua-Quzhou) Basin, being situated at the junction of two of the tributaries of the Wu (Jinhua) River—the Dongyang River and the Wuyi River. It is also a junction on the railway

Diamond Sutra, brief and very popular Mahayana Buddhist text widely used in East Asia and perhaps the best known of the 18 smaller “Wisdom” texts that together with their commentaries are known as the Prajnaparamita (“Perfection of Wisdom”). It takes the form of a dialogue in the presence of a

Eight Masters of Nanjing, group of Chinese artists who lived and worked during the late 17th century in Nanjing (known as Jinling during the early Tang dynasty, c. 7th century). Although their group identity derives largely from the locale in which they worked, certain aesthetic similarities are

Quemoy Island, island under the jurisdiction of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait at the mouth of mainland China’s Xiamen (Amoy) Bay and about 170 miles (275 km) northwest of Kao-hsiung, Taiwan. Quemoy is the principal island of a group of 12, the Quemoy (Chin-men) Islands, which constitute Chin-men

Jinpingmei, the first realistic social novel to appear in China. It is the work of an unknown author of the Ming dynasty, and its earliest extant version is dated 1617. Two English versions were published in 1939 under the titles The Golden Lotus and Chin P’ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi

jinbi shanshui, style of Chinese landscape painting during the Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties. In this style, a rich decorative effect was achieved by the application of two mineral colours, azurite blue and malachite green, together with gold, to a fine line drawing. Among the early

Jinsha River, westernmost of the major headwater streams of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), southwestern China. Its headwaters rise in the Wulan and Kekexili (Hoh Xil) ranges in western Qinghai province, to the south of the Kunlun Mountains, and on the northern slope of the Tanggula (Dangla)

Jinsha River, westernmost of the major headwater streams of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), southwestern China. Its headwaters rise in the Wulan and Kekexili (Hoh Xil) ranges in western Qinghai province, to the south of the Kunlun Mountains, and on the northern slope of the Tanggula (Dangla)

Chinese civil service: …bureaucracy then competed in the jinshi exams, which tested a candidate’s knowledge of the Confucian Classics. This system gradually became the major method of recruitment into the bureaucracy; by the end of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocracy was destroyed, and its power was taken by the scholar-gentry, who staffed…

Jinshi, market town, northern Hunan sheng (province), China. Administratively a county-level city under the city of Changde, it was established through separation from Lixian county, first in 1950, and again in 1979. It stands on the north bank of the Li River some distance above its discharge into

Guwen, early form of Chinese writing, examples of which are found on bronze vessels and objects of the Shang (c. 18th–12th century bc) and Zhou (12th century–256/255 bc) dynasties. The term jinwen (“metal script”), a reference to those metal objects, has also been used to designate guwen

china, any of various fine ornamental and useful ceramic wares, usually made of porcelain. See porcelain; bone china; ironstone

John Farrow: Films of the 1940s: …Dawn (1942) with Paul Muni; China (1943), a thriller about war profiteers (Alan Ladd and Bendix) who battle Japanese invaders while helping a teacher (Loretta Young) and her students; and The Hitler Gang (1944), a biopic of the Nazi leader. You Came Along (1945) featured Robert Cummings as a war…

China, country of East Asia. It is the largest of all Asian countries. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, it covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth, and it is almost as large as the whole of Europe. China is also one of the most populous countries in the world,

Camilo Pessanha: …the Elegias, were collected in China (1943).

China 1, first Earth satellite orbited by the People’s Republic of China. It was launched on April 24, 1970, from the rocket facility at Shuang Cheng Tsu, and it made China the fifth nation to place a satellite into Earth orbit. Little is known about China 1. It weighed approximately 173 kg (381

Claire L. Chennault: …Force (later reorganized as the 14th Air Force) and Chennault was recalled to active duty in 1942. The squadron had great success against Japanese forces, and in 1943 Chennault was promoted to major general. He had frequent clashes with General Joseph Stilwell and other superior officers, however, and in 1945…

China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA), organization founded in Beijing in 2001 to promote arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation. CACDA coordinates and organizes research, education, and advocacy on the issues of arms control and international security. Although CACDA is

China aster, (Callistephus chinensis), herbaceous plant of the aster family (Asteraceae, also called Compositae), many cultivated varieties of which are longtime garden favourites. The native species from China is 75 cm (2.5 feet) tall, with white to violet flowers having yellow centres. The

cowpea, (Vigna unguiculata), annual plant within the pea family (Fabaceae) grown for its edible legumes. The plants are thought to be native to West Africa and are widely cultivated in warm regions around the world. In addition to their use as a protein-rich food crop, cowpeas are extensively grown

Rem Koolhaas: …the headquarters for Beijing’s state-owned China Central Television (CCTV; 2004–08). The CCTV building, noted for its angular-loop shape, is the centrepiece of a complex including the Koolhaas-designed CCTV Television Cultural Centre, which was under construction when it was severely damaged by fire in 2009. The building was restored and completed…

kaolin, soft white clay that is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of china and porcelain and is widely used in the making of paper, rubber, paint, and many other products. Kaolin is named after the hill in China (Kao-ling) from which it was mined for centuries. Samples of kaolin were first

China: Finance: …important financial institutions include the China Construction Bank (formerly People’s Construction Bank of China), responsible for capitalizing a portion of overall investment and for providing capital funds for certain industrial and construction enterprises; the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which conducts ordinary commercial transactions and acts as a savings…

Frank Borzage: Later work: … Borzage withdrew from filmmaking until China Doll (1958), a World War II romance in which an American pilot (Victor Mature) finds that, after a drunken night, he has acquired a Chinese housekeeper (Li Hua Li), with whom he then falls in love. The Big Fisherman (1959), made for Disney, is…

David Mamet: …and an inmate seeking parole; China Doll (produced 2015), about a wealthy con man; and Bitter Wheat (produced 2019), a topical drama featuring a powerful filmmaker who is accused of sexual misconduct (the character was modeled on Harvey Weinstein). In all these works, Mamet used the rhythms and rhetoric of…

Agnes Smedley: …War and in 1938 published China Fights Back: An American Woman with the Eighth Route Army, on her experiences in Shanxi province. In Hankou she worked with the Chinese Red Cross Medical Corps, collected supplies for the Red Army, and served as a publicist for the communists until the city…

China fir, (Cunninghamia lanceolata), coniferous evergreen timber tree of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to East Asia. The China fir may grow to a height of 50 metres (160 feet), with a circumference of about 5.5 metres (18 feet); it is covered with fragrant, reddish brown bark that is

Samuel Fuller: Films of the 1950s: China Gate (1957) was an anticommunist action film that featured Gene Barry and Nat King Cole as mercenaries working for the French to blow up a munitions stockpile in Vietnam.

ramie: History and uses: Ramie fibre, also known as China grass, and ramie fabric, variously known as grass linen, grass cloth, or China linen, have been exported from East Asia to the Western Hemisphere since early in the 18th century, but commercial production of ramie products did not achieve importance in the West until…

malachite green, triphenylmethane dye used medicinally in dilute solution as a local antiseptic. Malachite green is effective against fungi and gram-positive bacteria. In the fish-breeding industry it has been used to control the fungus Saprolegnia, a water mold that kills the eggs and young fry.

Christianity: Orthodox and nondenominational missions: …(1865; after 1965 called the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) as the great prototype. Missions such as these often sought to work in areas unoccupied by other missionaries, guaranteed no salaries, and left financial support in God’s hands, but most bodies made their financial needs known to a wide constituency. Their chief…

Clive Palmer: …mines to the Chinese-government-owned corporation CITIC Ltd. (formerly CITIC Pacific). The deal, which was initially worth nearly $3 billion (Australian), included future royalties on any ore produced. Mineralogy further acquired coal mines in 2008 and a nickel and cobalt refinery in 2009. Critics alleged that Palmer’s mines contained only low-grade…

China: Finance: …the agricultural sector; and the China Investment Bank, which handles foreign investment. Many foreign banks maintain offices in China’s larger cities and the special economic zones. In 2005 the China Construction Bank became the first of China’s “big four” banks to be publicly traded. The Bank of China and the…

velvetleaf, (Abutilon theophrasti), annual hairy plant of the mallow family (Malvaceae) native to southern Asia. The plant is cultivated in northern China for its fibre and is widely naturalized in warmer regions of North America, where it is often a serious agricultural weed. It grows 0.6–2.4

ramie: History and uses: Ramie fabric was used in ancient Egypt and was known in Europe during the Middle Ages. Ramie fibre, also known as China grass, and ramie fabric, variously known as grass linen, grass cloth, or China linen, have been exported from East Asia to the Western…

Li Ruigang: …of SMG to focus on China Media Capital (CMC), a private equity and venture capital company that he had founded two years earlier. He served as chairman of CMC, which quickly became known for its entertainment and media investments.

Maxine Hong Kingston: In her second memoir, China Men (1980), Kingston tells the story of Chinese immigration through the experiences of the men in her family. Using the narrative techniques of The Woman Warrior, she relates their stories of virtual slave labour, loneliness, and discrimination. China Men won the American Book Award…

China: Industrialization for self-strengthening: …the second period were the China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company and the Kaiping coal mines. These enterprises were sponsored by high provincial officials—the central figure was Li Hongzhang—but their management was left to joint operation by shareholders’ representatives and the lower officials appointed by the sponsors.

kolinsky, any of several species of Asian weasels. See

Benicio Del Toro: …Money for Nothing (1993) and China Moon (1994) before his breakthrough role as the unintelligible Fenster in the crime drama The Usual Suspects (1995).

Peter Voser: …Russia’s OAO Gazprom and China’s CNPC and big-ticket investments in Canada. Under Voser’s direction, Shell also began investing in various exploration and production projects at a time when declining oil and gas prices were reducing profits throughout the energy sector. Voser justified his strategy by estimating that energy demand would…

China National Space Administration (CNSA), Chinese government organization founded in 1993 to manage national space activities. The organization is composed of four departments: General Planning; System Engineering; Science, Technology, and Quality Control; and Foreign Affairs. The chief executive

Lang Lang: …as a soloist at the China National Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural concert, with Pres. Jiang Zemin in attendance.

orange: Cultivation: The tree of the sweet orange often reaches 6 metres (20 feet) in height. The broad, glossy, evergreen leaves are medium-sized and ovate; the petioles (leafstalks) have narrow wings. Its white five-petaled flowers are very fragrant. The fruit is a modified berry known as a hesperidium, and the flesh…

Jack Ma: On his return, he founded China Pages, which created Web sites for Chinese businesses and was one of China’s first Internet companies. He left the company two years later, however, partly because of strong competition from the communications company Hangzhou Telecom, which had founded a rival company, Chinesepage. From 1998…

Expo Shanghai 2010: …prominent among these were the Chinese pavilion complex, just to the west, topped by a red cantilevered roof that evoked the classic Chinese bracket (dougong) construction style; and a large new multipurpose Culture Center, built just to the northwest along the riverbank. The other two main buildings, located on the…

pink: Major species: deltoides); and rainbow, or China, pink (D. chinensis). Other important plants of the genus Dianthus are also sometimes referred to as pinks. The popular carnation (D. caryophyllus), for example, is often called clove pink in reference to its spicy scent, and sweet William (D. barbatus), a garden favourite, is…

Dennis Brutus: China Poems, written when Brutus visited China as vice president of the South African Table Tennis Board in 1973 but published in 1975, contains a series of short poems paying homage to chüeh-chü, a Chinese verse form. The poems in Salutes and Censures (1982) constitute…

Kang Youwei: …to Canada and founded the China Reform Association (Zhongguo Weixinhui; popularly known as the Save the Emperor Association and in 1907 renamed the Constitutional Party) to carry on his plans.

Chinese hibiscus, (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), perennial species of hibiscus of the mallow family (Malvaceae), cultivated for its large brightly coloured flowers. Chinese hibiscus is the most common species of hibiscus and is grown as an ornamental hedge in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

China Sea, part of the western Pacific Ocean bordering the Asian mainland on the east-southeast. The China Sea consists of two parts, the South China Sea (Chinese: Nan Hai) and the East China Sea (Chinese: Dong Hai), which connect through the shallow Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China.

Tay Garnett: Early work: …director earned further acclaim for China Seas (1935), a lively tale about piracy that starred Clark Gable and Jean Harlow; Wallace Beery supplied the villainy. That box-office hit was followed by She Couldn’t Take It (1935), a screwball crime comedy with George Raft and Joan Bennett. Garnett’s last credit from…

William Cookworthy: …(kaolin) and china stone (petuntse) at St. Austell in Cornwall. After many years of experiment with these materials, he finally learned the secret of hard porcelain, obtained a patent (1768), and established the Plymouth China factory.

James Bridges: However, it was the suspenseful The China Syndrome (1979) that became Bridges’s first breakout hit. Jane Fonda played a television reporter who stumbles onto a cover-up at a nuclear power plant that nearly suffered a meltdown, and Jack Lemmon portrayed the engineer who blows the whistle on his criminally negligent…

tea plant: Physical description and varieties: The China variety is a multistemmed bush that grows as high as 2.75 meters (9 feet). A hardy plant able to withstand cold winters, it has an economic life of at least 100 years. When grown at an altitude near that of Darjeeling, India (elevation 2,100…

Meliaceae: The chinaberry (Melia azedarach), also called bead tree and Persian lilac, is an ornamental Asian tree with round yellow fruits, often cultivated in many tropical and warm temperate areas.

goldenrain tree, (Koelreuteria paniculata), flowering tree of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), native to East Asia and widely cultivated in temperate regions for its handsome foliage and curious bladderlike seedpods. The dome-shaped tree grows to about 9 metres (30 feet) tall. The yellow

tung oil, pale-yellow, pungent drying oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree. On long standing or on heating, tung oil polymerizes to a hard, waterproof gel that is highly resistant to acids and alkalies. It is used in quick-drying varnishes and paints, as a waterproofing agent, and in making

bone china, hybrid hard-paste porcelain containing bone ash. The initial development of bone china is attributed to Josiah Spode the Second, who introduced it around 1800. His basic formula of six parts bone ash, four parts china stone, and three and a half parts china clay remains the standard

national flag consisting of a red field (background) with a large yellow star and four smaller stars in its upper hoist corner. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.The red of the Chinese flag has two historical bases. It expresses the revolutionary communist philosophy that has dominated

history of China, a survey of important events and people in the history of China from ancient times to the present. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, China covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth, and it is almost as large as the whole of Europe. China is also

Taiwan, island in the western Pacific Ocean that lies roughly 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of southeastern China. It is approximately 245 miles (395 km) long (north-south) and 90 miles (145 km) across at its widest point. Taipei, in the north, is the seat of government of the Republic of China

China: Finance: …and financial control are the People’s Bank of China and the Ministry of Finance, both subject to the authority of the State Council. The People’s Bank, which replaced the Central Bank of China in 1950 and gradually took over private banks, fulfills many of the functions of Western central and…

China, country of East Asia. It is the largest of all Asian countries. Occupying nearly the entire East Asian landmass, it covers approximately one-fourteenth of the land area of Earth, and it is almost as large as the whole of Europe. China is also one of the most populous countries in the world,

Taiwan, island in the western Pacific Ocean that lies roughly 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of southeastern China. It is approximately 245 miles (395 km) long (north-south) and 90 miles (145 km) across at its widest point. Taipei, in the north, is the seat of government of the Republic of China

fiddler crab: …fiddler crab (Uca pugnax), the china-back fiddler (U. pugilator), and the red-jointed fiddler (U. minax). These species, which range in body size from about 2.5 to 3 cm (1 to 1.2 inches), occur all along the Atlantic coast of the United States. The males of all species are more brightly…

continental shield: …Korea is sometimes designated the China-Korean Shield. The Angaran Shield is bordered on the west by a belt of folded rocks that presently comprise the Ural Mountains and on the south by the Himalayas; these mobile zones separate the Angaran Shield from the Baltic Shield to the west and the…

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), massive bilateral project to improve infrastructure within Pakistan for better trade with China and to further integrate the countries of South Asia. It is part of the larger Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to improve connectivity, trade, communication, and

Meliaceae: The chinaberry (Melia azedarach), also called bead tree and Persian lilac, is an ornamental Asian tree with round yellow fruits, often cultivated in many tropical and warm temperate areas.

Jessie Redmon Fauset: … (1924), Plum Bun (1928), and The Chinaberry Tree (1931).

Giorgio Chinaglia was an Italian football (soccer) player who was one of the sport’s greatest goal scorers and the leading star of the North American Soccer League (NASL) in the 1970s. Chinaglia moved to Wales as a schoolboy, and in 1964–65 he played for Swansea in the Welsh league. After having

chinampa, small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ancient name for the southwestern region of the Valley of Mexico, the region of Xochimilco, and it was there that the technique was—and is still—most widely used. It consists in

Chinandega, town, northwestern Nicaragua, in the Pacific coastal lowlands. Its central section was destroyed during a revolutionary outbreak in 1927, and the town was a scene of heavy fighting between Sandinista guerrillas and government troops in 1978–79, with serious damage to property. As a

Chinantec, Middle American Indians of northwestern Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The area is mountainous and not easily accessible. The Chinantec, who numbered about 150,000 in the late 20th century, are agricultural, as are most Middle American Indians. Corn (maize) and beans, supplemented by cassava

Middle American Indian: Language groups: …Otomanguean language family includes Oto-Pamean, Chinantecan, Tlapanec-Manguean, Popolocan-Zapotecan, and Amuzgo-Mixtecan. The large family of Mayan languages includes 31 living and two extinct languages.

Neoclassical art: France: …younger generation included the sculptors Joseph Chinard, Joseph-Charles Marin, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, and Baron François-Joseph Bosio. The early sculpture of Ingres’s well-known contemporary François Rude was Neoclassical.

Chinati Foundation, contemporary art museum in Marfa, Texas, dedicated to exhibiting works according to the principles of its founder, American minimalist artist Donald Judd. (Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on art appreciation.) The Chinati Foundation is situated on 340 acres (138 hectares)

San Francisco: People of San Francisco: Chinatown, which is the best-known Chinese community in the United States, is also probably the least understood minority community in the city. The colourful shops and restaurants of Grant Avenue mask a slum of crowded tenements and sweatshops that has the highest population density in…

Roman Polanski: Chinatown (1974) reinvigorated the moribund film noir genre and is considered a classic of neo-noir. These films were notable for their careful buildup of mood and suspense, their subtle handling of human psychology, and their fascination with evil in its various forms.

chinch bug, (Blissus leucopterus), important grain and corn pest belonging to the insect family Lygaeidae (order Heteroptera). Though a native of tropical America, the chinch bug has extended its range to include much of North America. It is a small bug, not more than 5 mm (0.2 inch) long. The

ceviche: The Chincha, inhabitants of the Peruvian coast, were an accomplished oceangoing people—one witness of the Spanish invasion of Peru reported that the Chincha had 100,000 rafts afloat on the ocean—who consumed at least a portion of their catch without cooking it. When the Spanish, accustomed to…