Name: The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (en Inglés)
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Author: Carla Nappi
ISBN: 9780674035294

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Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Harvard University Press

Autor

Carla Nappi

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

250

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0674035291

ISBN13

9780674035294

N° edición

Categorías

China
Historia de asia

The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (en Inglés)

Carla Nappi (Autor) · Harvard University Press · Tapa Dura

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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). The encyclopedic Bencao gangmu is widely lauded as a classic embodiment of pre-modern Chinese medical thought. 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. Nappi examines the making of facts and weighing of evidence in a massive collection where tales of wildmen and dragons were recorded alongside recipes for ginseng and peonies. Nappi challenges the idea of a monolithic tradition of Chinese herbal medicine by showing the importance of debate and disagreement in early modern scholarly and medical culture. The Monkey and the Inkpot also illuminates the modern fate of a book that continues to shape alternative healing practices, global pharmaceutical markets, and Chinese culture.