LEADER 03363nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910820082503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-29188-6 010 $a9786613291882 010 $a0-520-95049-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520950498 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056958 035 $a(EBL)785222 035 $a(OCoLC)759398136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539876 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11357062 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539876 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581085 035 $a(PQKB)10643088 035 $a(DE-B1597)519701 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520950498 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC785222 035 $a(PPN)260013072 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056958 100 $a20110524d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe paper road $earchive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet /$fErik Mueggler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26902-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Transliteration -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I -- $tPart II -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth. 606 $aBotany$xFieldwork$zChina$zYunnan Sheng$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBotany$xFieldwork$zChina$zGansu Sheng$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBotany$xFieldwork$zChina$zTibet Autonomous Region$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBotanists$zScotland$vBiography 606 $aBotanists$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aYunnan Sheng (China)$xDescription and travel 607 $aGansu Sheng (China)$xDescription and travel 607 $aTibet Autonomous Region (China)$xDescription and travel 615 0$aBotany$xFieldwork$xHistory 615 0$aBotany$xFieldwork$xHistory 615 0$aBotany$xFieldwork$xHistory 615 0$aBotanists 615 0$aBotanists 676 $a580.92/2 700 $aMueggler$b Erik$f1962-$01141065 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820082503321 996 $aThe Paper Road$94017197 997 $aUNINA