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The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
Carla Nappi
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| #1699772 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2009-10-15 | 2009-09-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.38 x.88 x6.43l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 250 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Delightful study of great work|By E. N. Anderson|Carla Nappi's book is a charming, literate, and thoroughly informed long essay on Li Shizhen's Bencao Gangmu (Basic Herbal), the great Chinese herbal published in 1596 and still the standard reference for Chinese herbal medicine. Li's book was probably the greatest single botanical work in the world of its time, though the west||Carla Nappi takes us into one of the greatest Chinese encyclopedias of the natural world and its medicinal properties, the Bencao gangmu, which inspired the vision of the Chinese encyclopedia that haunts the pages of Borges and Foucault. Nappi draws us
This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518–1593).
The encyclopedic Bencao gangmu is widely lauded as a classic embodiment of pre-modern Chinese medical thought. In the first book-length study in English of Li’s ...
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