Monkey and the Inkpot

Name: Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674035294
Price: 4975.00 INR
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Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China

by Carla Nappi

Harvard University Press

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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.

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