Book ID: CBB001202426

Birds and Beasts in Chinese Texts and Trade: Lectures Related to South China and the Overseas World (2011)

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Ptak, Roderich (Author)


Harrassowitz Verlag


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: x + 140 pp.; ill.
Language: English

With this volume, Roderich Ptak tries to build bridges between China's South and the overseas world, between the real and the imagined, and philological and other dimensions. The book comprises six studies (based on different lectures ) which deal with animals in traditional Chinese texts from pre-Han times to the Qing period. The animals mentioned can be related to trade, daily life, literature, etc. with a regional focus on South China and the maritime world. The birds and beasts are instrumentalized for various purposes and in various ways occasionally appearing as exotic creatures, but their zoological identification remains difficult. The first paper comments on animal terms in the Confucian Classics; among other things it addresses the issue of "literary" versus "real" species. The following three contributions look at late medieval and early modern themes: methodological questions surrounding the maritime trade in animals; references to camels in ethnographic and other accounts carrying data on Africa and the Near East; and the shipment of horses from Hainan to the Chinese mainland. The fifth essay investigates the bird names listed in "Aomen jilue", a Qing gazetteer on Macau. Some of the descriptions associated with these birds go back to Jesuit records. Jesuit works including the famous Ricci map form the theme of the last study which discusses how animals were presented in these sources.

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Review Yang, Bin (2014) Review of "Birds and Beasts in Chinese Texts and Trade: Lectures Related to South China and the Overseas World". East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 107-110). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Larsson, Eleanor
Shi Yunli Zhu Haohao
Mathias Vigouroux
Weinreich, Spencer J.
Suzanne, Schwarz
Silke, Strickrodt
Concepts
Transmission of ideas
Transmission of texts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Trade
Cross-national interaction
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
19th century
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
China
Europe
Japan
Africa
Middle and Near East
India
Institutions
Zoological Society of London
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