Animals through Chinese History (eBook, ePUB)

Earliest Times to 1911
Redaktion: Sterckx, Roel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108695923
• Artikelnr.: 56632819

Inhaltsangabe

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 Han Yi and Dagmar Schäfer;
9. Animals in nineteenth-century 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.