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BIRDS AND BEASTS IN CHINESE TEXTS AND TRADE - R...

With this volume  Roderich Ptak tries to build bridges between China's South and the overseas
world  between the real and the imagined  and philological and other dimensions. The book
comprises six studies (based on different lectures ) which deal with animals in traditional
Chinese texts from pre-Han times to the Qing period. The animals mentioned can be related to
trade  daily life  literature  etc. with a regional focus on South China and the maritime
world. The birds and beasts are instrumentalized for various purposes and in various ways
occasionally appearing as exotic creatures  but their zoological identification remains
difficult. The first paper comments on animal terms in the Confucian Classics  among other
things it addresses the issue of literary versus real species. The following three
contributions look at late medieval and early modern themes: methodological questions
surrounding the maritime trade in animals  references to camels in ethnographic and other
accounts carrying data on Africa and the Near East  and the shipment of horses from Hainan to
the Chinese mainland. The fifth essay investigates the bird names listed in Aomen jilüe  a Qing
gazetteer on Macau. Some of the descriptions associated with these birds go back to Jesuit
records. Jesuit works including the famous Ricci map form the theme of the last study which
discusses how animals were presented in these sources.

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