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Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China

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Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China - Nappi, Carla
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In the first book-length study in English of the Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica ) of Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Nappi reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs.

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Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China 2009, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674035294

Hardcover