Animals through Chinese history : earliest times to 1911 / edited by Roel Sterckx, University of Cambridge, Martina Siebert, Berlin State Library, Dagmar Schäfer, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led...

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