Animals Through Chinese History
Title | Animals Through Chinese History PDF eBook |
Author | Roel Sterckx |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108428150 |
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
Mao's Bestiary
Title | Mao's Bestiary PDF eBook |
Author | Liz P. Y. Chee |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2021-03-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1478021357 |
Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee demonstrates that the early Communist state expanded and systematized their production and use to compensate for drug shortages, generate foreign investment in high-end animal medicines, and facilitate an ideological shift toward legitimating folk medicines. Among other topics, Chee investigates the craze for chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the origins of deer antler farming under Mao and bear bile farming under Deng, and the crucial influence of the Soviet Union and North Korea on Chinese zootherapies. In the process, Chee shows Chinese medicine to be a realm of change rather than a timeless tradition, a hopeful conclusion given current efforts to reform its use of animals.
The Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
Title | The Animals of the Chinese Zodiac PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Whitfield |
Publisher | Crocodile Books |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 1999-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781566563291 |
Introduces the Chinese zodiac and relates how each of its twelve signs was named for an animal. Explains the qualities associated with each animal and what animal rules the year in which the reader was born.
Animals and Human Society in Asia
Title | Animals and Human Society in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Rotem Kowner |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 459 |
Release | 2019-11-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 303024363X |
This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian history, society, and culture. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, the volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
The 12 Chinese Animals
Title | The 12 Chinese Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Zhongxian Wu |
Publisher | Singing Dragon |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780857010155 |
* Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category * The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Not just the year of birth, but also the month, day and hour have significance in true Chinese astrology. Master Zhongxian Wu explains how to find your power animal symbols, and how to learn from their wisdom. By fully understanding what each animal signifies, and how they relate to the major hexagrams of the Yijing, he shows that they can help you to find inner peace and live in harmony with family, friends, the wider community, and with nature. Using the wisdom of the twelve animal symbols as a guide, you will learn how to better understand your personality, and make choices that profoundly influence your health, relationships, career, and finances, allowing you to live up to your greatest potential. Making the wisdom of the twelve Chinese animals accessible to the Western reader for the first time in its relationship with the Yijing, this book will be an illuminating read for anyone interested in understanding themselves and their life patterns better, Chinese astrology, and the Yijing.
Animal to Edible
Title | Animal to Edible PDF eBook |
Author | Noélie Vialles |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1994-06-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521466721 |
Why do we find it necessary to slaughter living animals in order to enjoy their flesh? And why does this act offend our sensibilities, without necessarily making us into vegetarians? We no longer tolerate sacrifices, public butchering during festivals, butchers operating openly in the middle of our cities. Today, animals are killed in invisible abattoirs, set a good distance from our normal activities. This recent separation between the slaughter-house and the butcher's establishment is somehow essential to the modern meat diet. In her study of abattoirs in south-west France, Noélie Vialles brings to light a complex system of avoidances. Her analysis reveals that beyond the specific denial of the work of the abattoirs lies a whole system of symbolic representations of blood, human beings and animals, a symbolic code that determines the way in which we prepare domestic animals for the table.
Animal and the Daemon in Early China, The
Title | Animal and the Daemon in Early China, The PDF eBook |
Author | Roel Sterckx |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0791489159 |
Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species - both as natural and cultural creatures - were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.