Animals through Chinese history : earliest times to 1911 / edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Berlin State Library, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sterckx, Roel, 1969- editor.

Siebert, Martina, editor.

Schäfer, Dagmar, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--China--History.

Animals.

History.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative collection of essays spanning Chinese history reveals how relations between past and present, lived and literary reality, have been central to how information about animals and the natural world has been processed and evaluated in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, ranging from ritual texts to poetry to veterinary science, this volume explores developments in the human-animal relationship through Chinese history and the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access.

Contents:

Knowing animals in Chinese history: an introduction / Dagmar Schäfer, Martina Siebert and Roel Sterckx

1. Shang sacrificial animals : material documents and images / Adam C. Schwartz

2. Animal to edible : the ritualization of animals in early China / Roel Sterckx

3. Noble creatures : filial and righteous animals in early medieval Confucian thought / Keith N. Knapp

4. Walking by itself : the singular history of the Chinese cat / Timothy H. Barrett and Mark Strange

5. Bees in China : a brief cultural history / David Pattinson

6. Where did the animals go? : presence and absence of livestock in Chinese agricultural treatises / Francesca Bray

7. Animals as text : producing and consuming 'text-animals' / Martina Siebert

8. Great plans : Song dynastic (960-1279) institutions for human and veterinary healthcare / Dagmar Schäfer and Han Yi

9. Animals in nineteeth-centry eschatological discourse / Vincent Goossaert

10. Reconsidering the boundaries : multicultural and multilingual perspectives on the care and management of the emperors' horses in the Qing / Sare Aricanli

11. Animals as wonders : writing commentaries on monthly ordinances in Qing China / Zheng Xinxian

12. Reforming the humble pig : pigs, pork and contemporary China / Mindi Schneider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108428156

1108428150

OCLC:

1038027540

Publisher Number:

99980352334