Matthew Mosca and I recently had the chance to sit down in Vancouver and talk about his great new book on geography and geopolitics in the Qing. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: An Interview
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Beverly Bossler about her wonderful and important new book on gender and China from the tenth through fourteenth centuries. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: An Interview
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2009) 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. This first book-length study in English of Li’s text reveals a “cabinet of curiosities” of … Continue reading The Monkey And the Inkpot
Carla Nappi 