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Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan

Innovation, Experiments, and Anxieties

Fan Lin editor Doreen Mueller editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Amsterdam University Press

Publishing:6th Jan '25

£113.00

This title is due to be published on 6th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan cover

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.

ISBN: 9789048559091

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258 pages