The Monkey and the Inkpot : : Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Nappi, Carla,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2009
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Ex-Voto
  • Note on Conversions
  • Prologue: A Curious Instinct, A Taste for Ink
  • 1. Conception: Birth of a Naturalist
  • 2. Generation: Anatomy of a Naturalist
  • INTERLUDE. Here Be Dragons: A Reader's Guide to the Bencao gangmu
  • 3. Transformation: Elements of Change
  • 4. Transformation: Sprouts of Change
  • 5. Transformation: Bodies of Change
  • 6. Transformation: Creatures of Change
  • Conclusion. Rot and Rebirth: The Afterlife and Reincarnation of a Naturalist
  • Appendix A. Li Shizhen, Lidai zhujia bencao [Bencao works through the ages]
  • Appendix B. Contents of the Bencao gangmu [Systematic materia medica]
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Chinese Characters
  • Index

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