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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949The Caterpillar Fungus Travels Overseas

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949: The Caterpillar Fungus Travels Overseas [This chapter shifts the focus to the outside world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It traces the travels of the caterpillar fungus to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, while elucidating the key actors and their roles and efforts in cross-cultural contacts. The pursuit of new effective medicinal substances and natural-historical curiosities underlay the caterpillar fungus’s journeys overseas despite different bilateral settings. The functioning of the transnational networks for the caterpillar fungus illuminates the interplay between humans and nonhumans in the global production of natural knowledge.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949The Caterpillar Fungus Travels Overseas

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Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-24722-4
Pages
97 –158
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-24723-1_3
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[This chapter shifts the focus to the outside world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It traces the travels of the caterpillar fungus to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, while elucidating the key actors and their roles and efforts in cross-cultural contacts. The pursuit of new effective medicinal substances and natural-historical curiosities underlay the caterpillar fungus’s journeys overseas despite different bilateral settings. The functioning of the transnational networks for the caterpillar fungus illuminates the interplay between humans and nonhumans in the global production of natural knowledge.]

Published: Feb 8, 2023

Keywords: Dominicus Parennin; John Reeves; Alexander A. Tatarinov; Carl P. Thunberg; Cross-Cultural Contact; Missionary; English East India Company

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