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The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949The Spread of a Sino-Tibetan Marvel

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949: The Spread of a Sino-Tibetan Marvel [This chapter explores the emergence and spread of the caterpillar fungus in Chinese society by the end of the last imperial dynasty of China. While being written about widely and sought after, the caterpillar fungus sustained a social life in Chinese materia medica, natural history and commerce. This chapter pays close attention to human imagination of the caterpillar fungus’s transformative ability according to its Chinese interpreters from travellers and physicians to officials and poets. More broadly, it touches upon the politics of nature and acculturation of exotica in a Sino-Tibetan context.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949The Spread of a Sino-Tibetan Marvel

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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
25 –96
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-24723-1_2
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Abstract

[This chapter explores the emergence and spread of the caterpillar fungus in Chinese society by the end of the last imperial dynasty of China. While being written about widely and sought after, the caterpillar fungus sustained a social life in Chinese materia medica, natural history and commerce. This chapter pays close attention to human imagination of the caterpillar fungus’s transformative ability according to its Chinese interpreters from travellers and physicians to officials and poets. More broadly, it touches upon the politics of nature and acculturation of exotica in a Sino-Tibetan context.]

Published: Feb 8, 2023

Keywords: Caterpillar Fungus; Tibet; Qing Dynasty; East China; Aphrodisiacs; Transformation; Physicians

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