The Monkey and the Inkpot : : Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China / / Carla Nappi.
This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593). In the first book-length study in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t List of Illustrations -- |t Ex-Voto -- |t Note on Conversions -- |t Prologue: A Curious Instinct, A Taste for Ink -- |t 1. Conception: Birth of a Naturalist -- |t 2. Generation: Anatomy of a Naturalist -- |t INTERLUDE. Here Be Dragons: A Reader's Guide to the Bencao gangmu -- |t 3. Transformation: Elements of Change -- |t 4. Transformation: Sprouts of Change -- |t 5. Transformation: Bodies of Change -- |t 6. Transformation: Creatures of Change -- |t Conclusion. Rot and Rebirth: The Afterlife and Reincarnation of a Naturalist -- |t Appendix A. Li Shizhen, Lidai zhujia bencao [Bencao works through the ages] -- |t Appendix B. Contents of the Bencao gangmu [Systematic materia medica] -- |t Notes -- |t Glossary of Chinese Characters -- |t Index |
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520 | |a This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593). In the first book-length study in English of Li's text, Carla Nappi reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs. | ||
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650 | 0 | |a Education |z China |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a History, Early Modern 1451-1600 |z China. | |
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650 | 0 | |a Medicine, Chinese Traditional |z China |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Medicine, Chinese |x History |y 16th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Natural history |z China |x History |y 16th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Natural history |z China |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Naturalists |z China |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Nature |v Essays. | |
650 | 0 | |a Nature |v Reference. | |
650 | 0 | |a Physicians |z China |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Physicians |z China |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Scholars |z China |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Travel |v Special Interest |v Ecotourism. | |
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