Insect histories of East Asia / edited by David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose.
| Other author | Bello, David Anthony, 1963- |
| Other author | Daniel, Burton-Rose. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] |
| Description | xxxi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terms and Conventions -- Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries -- Introduction / David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose -- Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong -- What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China / Federico Valenti -- The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature / Olivia Milburn -- Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Mårten Söderblom Saarela -- Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power -- Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China / David A. Bello -- A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea / Sang-ho Ro -- "Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies": Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan / Kerry Smith -- Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China -- Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period / Daniel Burton-Rose -- The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the "Species Problem" in Socialist China / Lijing Jiang -- Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Abstract | 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.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023933099 |
| ISBN | 9780295751788 (haradback) |
| ISBN | 0295751789 (haradback) |
| ISBN | 9780295751801 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0295751800 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |