Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
