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University of Washington Press Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China (Culture, Place, and Nature)

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Chinas vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and describe new and unknown species or properties. Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid\-nineteenth and mid\-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and geographies but fueled a new knowledge of China itself. Nicholas K. Menzies highlights the importance of botanical illustration as a tool for recording naturecontrasting how images of plants were used in the past to the conventions of scientific drawing and investigating the transition of traditional systems of organization, classification, observation, and description to modern ones. About the Author Nicholas K. Menzies is Research Fellow in Chinese Botanical Science at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. He is author of Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber: Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management.

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Brand: University of Washington Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0295749458
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Asia > China
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 November 2021
Listed Since: 11 March 2021

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