The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / Erik Mueggler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mueggler, Erik, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forrest, George, 1873-1932--Travel.

Forrest, George.

Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1884-1962--Travel.

Rock, Joseph F.

Botany--Fieldwork--China--Yunnan Sheng--History--20th century.

Botany.

Botany--Fieldwork--China--Gansu Sheng--History--20th century.

Botany--Fieldwork--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--History--20th century.

Botanists--Scotland--Biography.

Botanists.

Botanists--United States--Biography.

Yunnan Sheng (China)--Description and travel.

Yunnan Sheng (China).

Gansu Sheng (China)--Description and travel.

Gansu Sheng (China).

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Description and travel.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part I

Part II

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613291882

9781283291880

1283291886

9780520950498

0520950496

OCLC:

759398136