图书标签: 自然史 科学史 海外中国研究 李时珍 历史 醫療史 本草纲目 nature_history
发表于2024-12-23
The Monkey and the Inkpot pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518–1593).
The encyclopedic Bencao gangmu is widely lauded as a classic embodiment of pre-modern Chinese medical thought. In the first book-length study in English of Li’s text, Carla Nappi reveals a “cabinet of curiosities” of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs. Nappi examines the making of facts and weighing of evidence in a massive collection where tales of wildmen and dragons were recorded alongside recipes for ginseng and peonies.
Nappi challenges the idea of a monolithic tradition of Chinese herbal medicine by showing the importance of debate and disagreement in early modern scholarly and medical culture. The Monkey and the Inkpot also illuminates the modern fate of a book that continues to shape alternative healing practices, global pharmaceutical markets, and Chinese culture.
Carla Nappi is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.
写法非常飘逸富有想象力。
评分有個奇怪的開頭,以及很多奇怪的小標題。但其實主要內容是要強調李時珍那個乍看之下難以理解,其實自成邏輯世界。這觀點我完全同意,但不是那麼意外。不過這本書若放在史學史的脈絡下自有其意義。
评分這位姐的寫作方式很奇特。。就像她在ubc的中國史課程設計一樣
评分喜欢致谢,看过的最有创意的致谢。各章的标题和小标题也起的好,但总体来说感觉论述展开的不够,前面几章可以算作本草纲目导读,最后一章讲本草纲目和李时珍随着不同时代的文化含义的变迁,太predictable。收获了一些有趣的怪异小故事
评分看这书还不如直接去读本草纲目……
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The Monkey and the Inkpot pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024