Article ID: CBB000850066

A Bug's Life: Change and Transformation in Early Modern China (2007)

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Chanting wasps and shape-shifting worms were all in a day's work for sixteenth-century Chinese naturalists such as Li Shizhen (1518–1593). In an effort to understand the metamorphoses of both nature and the human body, he and other early modern Chinese scholars looked towards tiny creatures like roundworms, lice and demon bugs. For them, such animals could reveal the most intimate secrets of the universe.

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Description On the 16th-century Chinese naturalist Li Shizhen and others.


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Authors & Contributors
Nappi, Carla Suzan
Andreas Janousch
Bass, Marisa Anne
Longo, Oddone
Caniglia, Guido
Zhang, Fang
Concepts
Natural history
East Asia, civilization and culture
Biology
Insects
Materia medica
Scientific illustration
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
18th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Renaissance
Places
China
Japan
Netherlands
Chile
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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