Huaiyu Chen

Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science

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Produktbeschreibung

This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781839985010
• ISBN-10: 1839985011
• Artikelnr.: 63369090

Autorenporträt

Huaiyu Chen is Associate Professor of School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Charts
Introduction
Plant Science and Technology in Medieval China
Ordering Plants in the Buddhist World: A Medieval Botanical Taxonomy
Animal Divination and Climate: An Environmental Perspective on the Cult of the Pig
Zoomancy in Medieval China
The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature
The Were-Tigers in Medieval China and Its Asian Context
The Animal Turn in Asian Studies and the Asian Turn in the Animal Studies
 Bibliography
 Index