The monkey and the inkpot [[electronic resource] ] : natural history and its transformations in early modern China / / Carla Nappi
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 508.0951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Natural history - China - History - 16th century |
| Medicine, Chinese - History - 16th century | |
| Naturalists - China | |
| Physicians - China | |
| Scholars - China | |
| Learning and scholarship - China - History - 16th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Intellectual life 1368-1644 |
| Classificazione: | NK 3400 |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The monkey and the inkpot |
| ISBN: | 0-674-05435-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785020103321 |
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