Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan

Fan Lin is an art historian at the Institute of Area Studies at Leiden University. Her research interests focus on mapmaking and urban culture in middle period China, especially during the Song period. Doreen Mueller is assistant professor of Japanese art and material culture at Leiden University. Her research explores the intersections of visual culture, social and environmental history with a focus on representations of famine and natural disasters.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Singing Frogs: Approaches to Registering Animals in The Nihon Sankai Meisan zue – Doreen Mueller Chapter 2: Tea Harvesting at Uji: Repackaging Uji as a Productive Place – Shiori Hiraki Chapter 3: Disciplined Objects?: Wood panels from the Kew Collections – Maki Fukuoka Chapter 4: The Return of the Elephants: A Social History of Elephant Watching in Early Modern China – Fan Lin Chapter 5: A Pair of Camels in Edo Japan: Representation and Discourse – Hiroyuki Suzuki Chapter 6: Pictures of Sea Fish (Haiyu tu) and Knowledge of Nature in Eighteenth-Century China – Ching-Ling Wang Chapter 7: Treatise (pu) versus Illustration (tu) – Absence and Presence of Illustrations in Pulu Writings on Chinese Nature Studies – Martina Siebert