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.
Edited by:
David A. Bello,
Daniel Burton-Rose
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780295751801
ISBN 10: 0295751800
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 July 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"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 Mårten 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"
David A. Bello is E. L. Otey Professor of East Asian Studies and director of East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University. His most recent book is Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. Daniel Burton-Rose is visiting assistant professor of history of science, technology, and the environment at Wake Forest University. He is East Asia editor of the journal Asian Medicine. Contributors: Lijing Jiang, Olivia Milburn, Sang-ho Ro, Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Kerry Smith, and Federico Valenti
