The monkey and the inkpot natural history and its transformations in early modern China
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). In the first book-length study in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London
Harvard University Press
2010, ©2009
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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). In the first book-length study in English of Li's text, Carla Nappi reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 234 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780674054356 |