Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan Innovation, Experiments, and Anxieties

Fan Lin (editor), Doreen Mueller (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN:	9789048559091
Publisher:	Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Pub date:	15 Apr 2025
DEWEY:	709.51
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	234
Weight:	-1g
Height:	240mm
Width:	170mm