Animals through Chinese history : earliest times to 1911 /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. This title is also available as Open Access. |
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| Item Description: | Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS ID and password. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : PDF file(s). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108551571 1108551572 1108428150 9781108428156 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108551571 |