Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan

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The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemological concerns, political and social agendas, and cultural interests. The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemological concerns, political and social agendas, and cultural interests. In particular, they examine the ways in which scholars, professional painters, and publishers engendered the sociohistorical meanings of the images.

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Introduction, Chapter 1: Singing Frogs: Approaches to Registering Animals in The Nihon Sankai Meisan zue, Chapter 2: Tea Harvesting at Uji: Repackaging Uji as a Productive Place, Chapter 3: Disciplined Objects?: Wood panels from the Kew Collections, Chapter 4: The Return of the Elephants: A Social History of Elephant Watching in Early Modern China, Chapter 5: A Pair of Camels in Edo Japan: Representation and Discourse, Chapter 6: Pictures of Sea Fish (Haiyu tu) and Knowledge of Nature in Eighteenth-Century China, Chapter 7: Treatise (pu) versus Illustration (tu) - Absence and Presence of Illustrations in Pulu Writings on Chinese Nature Studies