Insect Histories of East Asia
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 2023
- ISBN 9780295751801
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 b&w illus., 2 tables Illustrations, black & white 522
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Long description:
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.
"This volume succeeds in demonstrating both the scale and relevance of insects in an East Asian context."
MoreTable of 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
1. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China
Federico Valenti
2. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature
Olivia Milburn
3. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
M?rten Söderblom Saarela
Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power
4. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China
David A. Bello
5. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
Sang-ho Ro
6. "Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies": Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan
Kerry Smith
Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China
7. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period
Daniel Burton-Rose
8. 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
