Huaiyu Chen is an associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China (2007) and coeditor of Great Journeys Across the Pamir Mountains: A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on His Eighty-fifth Birthday (2018), among other books.

The question of how humans treat, and should treat, non-human animals has become more urgent in the face of biodiversity loss, and we might find some answers by considering how we have lived with animals in other times and places. Huaiyu Chen’s In the Land of Tigers and Snakes. . . provides openings to do so.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Buddhists Categorizing Animals: Medieval Chinese Classification2. Confucians Civilizing Unruly Beasts: Tigers and Pheasants3. Buddhists Taming Felines: The Companionship of the Tiger4. Daoists Transforming Ferocious Tigers: Practical Techniques and Rhetorical Strategies5. Buddhists Killing Reptiles: Snakes in Religious Competition6. Buddhists Enlightening Virtuous Birds: The Parrot as a Religious AgentEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Huaiyu Chen is an associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China (2007) and coeditor of Great Journeys Across the Pamir Mountains: A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on His Eighty-fifth Birthday (2018), among other books.

The question of how humans treat, and should treat, non-human animals has become more urgent in the face of biodiversity loss, and we might find some answers by considering how we have lived with animals in other times and places. Huaiyu Chen’s In the Land of Tigers and Snakes. . . provides openings to do so.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Buddhists Categorizing Animals: Medieval Chinese Classification2. Confucians Civilizing Unruly Beasts: Tigers and Pheasants3. Buddhists Taming Felines: The Companionship of the Tiger4. Daoists Transforming Ferocious Tigers: Practical Techniques and Rhetorical Strategies5. Buddhists Killing Reptiles: Snakes in Religious Competition6. Buddhists Enlightening Virtuous Birds: The Parrot as a Religious AgentEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Huaiyu Chen is an associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China (2007) and coeditor of Great Journeys Across the Pamir Mountains: A Festschrift in Honor of Zhang Guangda on His Eighty-fifth Birthday (2018), among other books.

The question of how humans treat, and should treat, non-human animals has become more urgent in the face of biodiversity loss, and we might find some answers by considering how we have lived with animals in other times and places. Huaiyu Chen’s In the Land of Tigers and Snakes. . . provides openings to do so.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Buddhists Categorizing Animals: Medieval Chinese Classification2. Confucians Civilizing Unruly Beasts: Tigers and Pheasants3. Buddhists Taming Felines: The Companionship of the Tiger4. Daoists Transforming Ferocious Tigers: Practical Techniques and Rhetorical Strategies5. Buddhists Killing Reptiles: Snakes in Religious Competition6. Buddhists Enlightening Virtuous Birds: The Parrot as a Religious AgentEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex