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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Conception: Birth of a naturalist
  • Generation: Anantomy of a naturalist
  • (Interlude) Here be dragons: A reader's guide to the Bencao gangmu
  • Transformation: Elements of change
  • Transformation: Sprouts of change
  • Transformation: Bodies of change
  • Transformation: Creatures of change
  • Conclusion. Rot and rebirth: The afterlife and reincarnation of a naturalist
  • Appendices. A: Li Shizhen, Lidai zhujia bencao [Bencao works through the ages]; B: Contents of the Bencao gangmu [Systematic materia medica].

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