Knowing Manchuria Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland
Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region,...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London
University of Chicago Press
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Flying Voles of Gannan and the Challenge of Knowing Manchuria's Natures
- 1. Landscapes of Exile: Nostalgia and Natural History on the Journey to Ningguta
- 2. Where the Dragon Arose: Discovering the Dragon through Number and Blood
- 3. Si(gh)ting the White Mountain: Locating Mount Paektu/Changbai in a Sacred Landscape
- 4. Flowers along the Amur: Making Sense of Plant Diversity on the Amazon of Asia
- 5. Fossils of Empire: The Jehol Biota and the Age of Coal
- 6. Plagueland: Pursuing Yersinia pestis on the Manchurian-Mongolian Grassland
- 7. Scientific Redemption: The Flying Voles of Gannan Revisited
- 8. Reclaimed: Technology and Embodied Knowledge on the Sanjiang Plain
- Conclusion: A View from the Mountain
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index