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Nappi Carla Suzan <1977-> |
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Titolo |
The monkey and the inkpot [[electronic resource] ] : natural history and its transformations in early modern China / / Carla Nappi |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Natural history - China - History - 16th century |
Medicine, Chinese - History - 16th century |
Naturalists - China |
Physicians - China |
Scholars - China |
Learning and scholarship - China - History - 16th century |
China Intellectual life 1368-1644 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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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 |
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