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Author Chen, Huaiyu, 1974- author.

Title Animals and plants in Chinese religions and science / Huaiyu Chen
Published London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 205 pages) : illustrations
Contents Plant Science and Technology in Medieval China; Ordering Plants in the Buddhist World: A Medieval Botanical Taxonomy; Animal Divination and Climate: An Environmental Perspective on the Cult of the Pig; Zoomancy in Medieval China; The Changing Images of Zodiac Animals in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature; The Were-Tigers in Medieval China and Its Asian Context; The Animal Turn in Asian Studies and the Asian Turn in the Animal Studies
Summary This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2023)
Subject Animals -- Religious aspects.
Plants -- Religious aspects.
Science -- China -- History -- To 1500
Animals -- Religious aspects
Plants -- Religious aspects
Religion
Science
SUBJECT China -- Religion -- To 1500
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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