A Note on Terms and Conventions
Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries
Introduction
Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong
One. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China
Two. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature
Three. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power
Four. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China
Five. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
Six. "Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies": Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan
Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China
Seven. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period
Eight. The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the "Species Problem" in Socialist China
Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms