The Monkey and the Inkpot : Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China / Carla Nappi.
2010
QH21.C6
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Title
The Monkey and the Inkpot : Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China / Carla Nappi.
Author
Nappi, Carla, author.
ISBN
9780674054356
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674054356 doi
Call Number
QH21.C6
Alternate Call Number
NK 3400
Dewey Decimal Classification
508.0951
Summary
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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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Ex-Voto
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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
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