The monkey and the inkpot : natural history and its transformations in early modern China /

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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)." "The encyclopedic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nappi, Carla Suzan, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593. > Ben cao gang mu.
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593 > Influence.
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593.
Li, Shizhen, > 1518-1593
Li, Shizhen > 1518-1593 > Bencao gangmu
Li, Shizhen. > Bencao gangmu.
Ben cao gang mu (Li, Shizhen)
China > Zusammenstellung
960-1644
Geschichte 1500-1600
Natural history > China > History.
Medicine, Chinese > History > 16th century.
Naturalists > China > Biography.
Physicians > China > Biography.
Scholars > China > Biography.
Learning and scholarship > China > History > 16th century.
Education > history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Medicine, Chinese Traditional > history
Physicians > history
Sciences naturelles > Chine > Histoire.
Médecine chinoise > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Naturalistes > Chine > Biographies.
Savants > Chine > Biographies.
Savoir et érudition > Chine > Histoire > 16e siècle.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
HISTORY > Modern > 16th Century.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship
Medicine, Chinese
Natural history
Naturalists
Physicians
Scholars
Arzneibuch
Medizin > China > Geschichte 16. Jh.
China > Intellectual life > 960-1644.
China
Chine > Vie intellectuelle > 960-1644.
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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)." "The encyclopedic Bencao gangmu is widely lauded as a classic embodiment of pre-modern Chinese medical thought. 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. Nappi examines the making of facts and weighing of evidence in a massive collection where tales of wildmen and dragons were recorded alongside recipes for ginseng and peonies." "Nappi challenges the idea of a monolithic tradition of Chinese herbal medicine by showing the importance of debate and disagreement in early modern scholarly and medical culture. The Monkey and the Inkpot also illuminates the modern fate of a book that continues to shape alternative healing practices, global pharmaceutical markets, and Chinese culture."--Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-205) and index.
ISBN:9780674054356
0674054350

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