The Monkey and the Inkpot
Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
Published on 15. February 2010
250 pages
978-0-674-05435-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the first book-length study in English of the Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518-1593), 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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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05435-6 (9780674054356)
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Book
10/2009
Harvard University Press
€83.08
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Person
Carla Nappi is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia
Content
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
