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.
Author(s): David A. Bello, Daniel Burton-Rose (eds.)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terms and Conventions
Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries
Introduction
Part One. Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong
One. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China
Two. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature
Three. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Part Two. Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power
Four. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century China
Five. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
Six. “Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies”: Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan
Part Three. The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China
Seven. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period
Eight. The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the “Species Problem” in Socialist China
Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms
Bibliography
Contributors
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