The blood and bones of this book were built with the help of a small corps of thoughtful and generous friends, colleagues, teachers, and institutions. Since this volume ends with a series of body parts, I thought it appropriate to begin similarly. Li Shizhen gets a lesson from the hunters Guoluo wasps from the Erya yintu Īn imp of darkness from the Bencao gangmu (1596)īeasts from the Bencao gangmu (1596): a mihou and a guoran 125Ī xingxing beast from the Gujin tushu jicheng, early eighteenth century 127Ī feifei beast from the Bencao gangmu (1778) Images of a dragon and dragon’s bone from the Bencao gangmu (1596) 54 Li Shizhen, Lidai zhujia bencao Īppendix B. Rot and Rebirth: The Afterlife and Reincarnation of a NaturalistĪppendix A. INTERLUDE Here Be Dragons: A Reader’s Guide to the Bencao gangmuĬonclusion. Prologue: A Curious Instinct, A Taste for Ink Learning and scholarship-China-History-16th century. Natural history-China-History-16th century. Includes bibliographical references and index. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2009Ĭopyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nappi, Carla Suzan, 1977– The monkey and the inkpot : natural history and its transformations in early modern China / Carla Nappi. THE MONKEY AND THE INKPOT NATURAL HISTORY AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS IN EARLY MODERN CHINA
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