Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan
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botanical art analysis
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East Asian art history
empirical observation methods
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natural history illustration
scientific imagery in early modern Asia
visual culture studies
zoological representation
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- ISBN 9781041184164
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemological concerns, political and social agendas, and cultural interests. In particular, they examine the ways in which scholars, professional painters, and publishers engendered the sociohistorical meanings of the images.
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.
