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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Main Author: Nappi, Carla
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London Harvard University Press 2010, ©2009
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