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Insect Histories of East Asia
David A. Bello,Daniel Burton-Rose
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Insect Histories of East Asia
David A. Bello,Daniel Burton-Rose
About This Book
Spotlights insects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history from the exalted to the despised Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories of East Asia centers on bugs and creepy crawlies and the taxonomies in which they were embedded in China, Japan, and Korea to present a history of human and animal cocreation of habitats in ways that were both deliberate and unwitting. Using sources spanning from the earliest written records into the twentieth century, the contributors draw on a wide range of disciplines to explore the dynamic interaction between the notional insects that infested authors' imaginations and the six-legged creatures buzzing, hopping, and crawling around them.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terms and Conventions
- Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries
- Introduction
- Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong
- Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power
- Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China
- Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index