Alcohol

Curry, Andrew. ‘Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze’. National Geographic, 17 January 2017. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/02/alcohol-discovery-addiction-booze-human-culture/

Bubble tea

‘Bubble Tea’. Infopedia. Accessed 14 January 2019. http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_2014-01-29_182158.html

CNN, Derrick Chang. ‘Is This the Inventor of Bubble Tea?’ CNN Travel, 12 July 2017. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/bubble-tea-inventor/index.html

Monitor, Magazine. ‘The Four-Year Spread of Bubble Tea’, BBC, 4 August 2014, sec. Magazine Monitor. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28640188

Wei, Clarissa. ‘How Boba Became an Integral Part of Asian-American Culture in Los Angeles’. L.A. Weekly, 16 January 2017. https://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/how-boba-became-an-integral-part-of-asian-american-culture-in-los-angeles-7819797

Cannabis

‘Canada Legalises Sale and Use of Cannabis’. BBC News, 17 October 2018, sec. US & Canada. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45806255

Goñi, Uki. ‘Uruguay, the First Country Where You Can Smoke Marijuana Wherever You Like’. The Observer, 27 May 2017, sec. Society. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/27/marijuana-legalisation-uruguay-seen-half-measure-users

‘Recreational Cannabis Legal in California’. BBC News, 1 January 2018, sec. US & Canada. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42532776

Zuardi, Antonio Waldo. ‘History of Cannabis as a Medicine: A Review’. Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry 28, no. 2 (June 2006): 153–57. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1516-44462006000200015

Cup noodles

‘Inventor of Instant Noodles Dies’. BBC News, 6 January 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6237013.stm

Jaine, Tom. ‘Obituary: Momofuku Ando’. The Guardian, 9 February 2007, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/09/guardianobituaries.japan

Domestic chicken

Akishinonomiya, Fumihito, Yoko Satta, Naoyuki Takahata, Masaru Takada, Hideo Gotoh, Sayaka Suzuki, Kaori Kuno, Hie Lim Kim, and Hiromi Sawai. ‘The Origin and Genetic Variation of Domestic Chickens with Special Reference to Junglefowls Gallus g. Gallus and G. Varius’. PLOS ONE 5, no. 5 (19 May 2010): e10639. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010639

Knight, Anneli. ‘All Chickens Descend from South East Asia’. The Telegraph, 27 July 2012, sec. News. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9432623/All-chickens-descend-from-south-east-Asia.html

Eriksson, Jonas, Greger Larson, Ulrika Gunnarsson, Bertrand Bed’hom, Michele Tixier-Boichard, Lina Strömstedt, Dominic Wright, et al. ‘Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken’. PLOS Genetics 4, no. 2 (29 February 2008). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000010

Groenen, Martien A. M., Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans, Xiaoxiang Hu, Addie Vereijken, Hendrik-Jan Megens, and Martin G. Elferink. ‘Signatures of Selection in the Genomes of Commercial and Non-Commercial Chicken Breeds’. PLOS ONE 7, no. 2 (27 February 2012): e32720. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032720

‘On The Trail of The Red Junglefowl’. On The Trail of The Red Junglefowl. Accessed 14 January 2019. http://nparks.cwp/mygreenspace/issue-05-vol-2-2010/conservation/on-the-trail-of-the-red-junglefowl

Fishing gear

‘Cast from the Past: World’s Oldest Fishing Net Sinkers Found in South Korea’. Phys.Org. Accessed 14 January 2019. https://phys.org/news/2018-08-world-oldest-fishing-net-sinkers.html

Gunpowder

Levi, Scott C. Asia in the Gunpowder Revolution. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.186

‘Mongol Empire | Facts, History, & Map’. Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed 14 January 2019. https://www.britannica.com/place/Mongol-empire

Ice cream

‘Did Marco Polo Eat Ice Cream in China?;. ChinaDaily. Accessed 14 January 2019. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/food/2015-07/03/content_21170386.htm

‘The Origin of Ice-Cream’, BBC News. 7 September 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/tech/ice-cream/newsid_3634000/3634978.stm.

Karaoke

Woodward, Will. ‘Nobels Oblige’. The Guardian, 5 October 2004, sec. Education. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/oct/05/research.science

Zhou, Xun, and Francesca Tarocco. Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. https://books.google.com.sg/books?isbn=1780232403

Paper

Carter, Thomas Francis. The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward. Columbia University Press, 1925. https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=PgEYAAAAMAAJ

Holik, Herbert, ed. Handbook of Paper and Board. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2006.

Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1978. https://books.google.com.sg/books?isbn=0486236196

Lui, Francis T. ‘Cagan’s Hypothesis and the First Nationwide Inflation of Paper Money in World History’. Journal of Political Economy 91, no. 6 (December 1983): 1067–74. https://doi.org/10.1086/261201

Red bull

‘Chaleo Yoovidhya, The World’s Richest People’. Forbes. Accessed 14 January 2019. https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/13B6.html.

‘Energy Drinks Red Bull - Products :: Energy Drink :: Red Bull USA’. Accessed 14 January 2019. https://energydrink.redbull.com

‘Thai Billionaire Who Invented Red Bull Dies Aged 89’. The Guardian, 17 March 2012, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/17/red-bull-billionaire-dies-thailand.

Rice cultivation

Silva, Fabio, Chris J. Stevens, Alison Weisskopf, Cristina Castillo, Ling Qin, Andrew Bevan, and Dorian Q. Fuller. ‘Modelling the Geographical Origin of Rice Cultivation in Asia Using the Rice Archaeological Database’. Edited by Ron Pinhasi. PLOS ONE 10, no. 9 (1 September 2015): e0137024. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137024.

UCL. ‘Debating the Origins of Rice’. Rice, 5 July 2018. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/rice/history-rice/debating-origins-rice.

Zhao, Zhijun. ‘New Data and New Issues for the Study of Origin of Rice Agriculture in China’. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 2, no. 2 (1 June 2010): 99–105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-010-0028-x.

The number 'zero'

Lakshmi, Rama. ‘Indians Are Certain They Invented the Zero. But Can They Prove It?’ Washington Post, 11 March 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indians-are-convinced-they-discovered-the-zero-can-they-prove-it/2017/03/10/de0821f4-19d2-4600-9403-2975c6a8b057_story.html.

Pinhas, Michal, and Joseph Tzelgov. ‘Expanding on the Mental Number Line: Zero Is Perceived as the “Smallest”.’ Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 38, no. 5 (2012): 1187–1205. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027390

Ward, Mariellen. ‘India’s Impressive Concept about Nothing’. BBC Travel, 8 August 2018. http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180807-how-india-gave-us-the-zero

WILSON, PATRICIA S. ‘MATH ROOTS: ZERO: A Special Case’. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 6, no. 5 (2001): 300–309. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40053028

Wheel

Baldi, Johnny, and Valentine Roux. ‘The Innovation of the Potter’s Wheel: A Comparative Perspective between Mesopotamia and the Southern Levant’. Levant 48, no. 3 (September 2016): 236–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2016.1230379

Gambino, Megan. ‘A Salute to the Wheel’. Smithsonian. Accessed 14 January 2019. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-salute-to-the-wheel-31805121/

Yoga

‘How Did Yoga Conquer the World and What’s Changed?’ BBC News, 22 June 2017, sec. World. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-40354525

‘Yoga: Its Origin, History and Development’. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Accessed 14 January 2019. https://www.mea.gov.in/in-focus-article.htm?25096/Yoga+Its+Origin+History+and+Development

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