4. The Return of the Elephants : A Social History of Elephant Watching in Early Modern China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. List of Figures 9
5. Introduction 15
6. 1. Singing Frogs: Approaches to Registering Animals in The Nihon Sankai Meisan zue 31
7. 2. Tea Harvesting at Uji: Repackaging Uji as a Productive Place 55
8. 3. Disciplined Objects? Wood panels from the Kew Collections 85
9. 4. The Return of the Elephants : A Social History of Elephant Watching in Early Modern China 121
10. 5. A Pair of Camels in Edo Japan: Representation and Discourse 147
11. 6. Pictures of Sea Fish (Haiyu tu) and Knowledge of Nature in Eighteenth-Century China 173
12. 7. Treatise (pu) versus Illustration (tu) : The Absence and Presence of Illustrations in Pulu Writings on Chinese Nature Studies 199
13. Index 229