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Animals through Chinese History by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert and Dagmar SchŁfer is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Animals through Chinese History about?

Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 List of Figures 9 List of Tables 11 List of Contributors 12 Acknowledgements 14 Chronology of Dynasties 15 Knowing Animals in China’s History: An Introduction 17 1 Shang Sacrificial Animals: Material Documents and Images 36 2 Animal to Edible: The Ritualization of Animals in Early China 62 3 Noble Creatures: Filial and Righteous Animals in Early Medieval Confucian Thought 80 4 Walking by Itself: The Singular History of the Chinese Cat 100 5 Bees in China: A Brief Cultural History 115 6 Where Did the Animals Go?: Presence and Absence of Livestock in Chinese Agricultural Treatises 134 7 Animals as Text: Producing and Consuming ‘Text-Animals’ 155 8 Great Plans: Song Dynastic (960–1279) Institutions for Human and Veterinary Healthcare 176 9 Animals in Nineteenth-Century Eschatological Discourse 197 10 Reconsidering the Boundaries: Multicultural and Multilingual Perspectives on the Care and Management of the Emperors’ Horses in the Qing 215 11 Animals as Wonders: Writing Commentaries on Monthly Ordinances in Qing China 233 12 Reforming the Humble Pig: Pigs, Pork and Contemporary China 249 Bibliography 260 Index 290

Author

Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert and Dagmar SchŁfer

Language

EN