Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, Dagmar Schafer
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication planned for:
January 2019
Abstract:
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.
Table of Contents:
Knowing Animals in China’s History: An Introduction
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
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