The gibbon in China: an essay in Chinese animal lore
Title | The gibbon in China: an essay in Chinese animal lore PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hans van Gulik |
Publisher | Brill Archive |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN |
The Metaphysics of Apes
Title | The Metaphysics of Apes PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Corbey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2005-03-14 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780521836838 |
This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.
Animals Through Chinese History
Title | Animals Through Chinese History PDF eBook |
Author | Roel Sterckx |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108428150 |
This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Animal and the Daemon in Early China
Title | The Animal and the Daemon in Early China PDF eBook |
Author | Roel Sterckx |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791489159 |
Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species—both as natural and cultural creatures—were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.
Sexual Life in Ancient China
Title | Sexual Life in Ancient China PDF eBook |
Author | R.H. van Gulik |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2021-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004487867 |
In 1961 Robert van Gulik published his pioneering overview of Sexual Life in Ancient China. This edition of the work is preceded by an elaborate introduction by Paul Rakita Goldin assessing the value of Van Gulik’s volume, the subject itself, and its author. The introduction is followed by an extensive and up-to-date bibliography on the subject, which guides the modern reader in the literature on the field which appeared after the publication of Van Gulik's volume. One of the criticisms in 1961 regarded the Latin translations of passages deemed too explicit by Van Gulik. In this 2002 edition all Latin has for the first time been translated into unambiguous English, thus making the full text widely available to an academic audience.
The Gibbons
Title | The Gibbons PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Lappan |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 2009-06-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0387886044 |
It is a great honor to be asked to introduce this exciting new volume, having been heavily involved in the first comprehensive synthesis in the early 1980s. Gibbons are the most enthralling of primates. On the one hand, they are the most appealing animals, with their upright posture and body shape, facial markings, dramatic arm-swinging locomotion and suspensory postures, and devastating duets; on the other hand, the small apes are the most diverse, hence biologically valuable and informative, of our closest relatives. It is hard for me to believe that it is 40 years to the month since I first set foot on the Malay Peninsula to start my doctoral study of the siamang. I am very proud to have followed in the footsteps of the great pioneer of primate field study, Clarence Ray Carpenter (CR or Ray, who I was fortunate to meet twice, in Pennsylvania and in Zurich), first in Central America (in 1967) and then in Southeast Asia. It is 75 years since he studied howler monkeys on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone. It is 70 years since he studied the white-handed gibbon in Thailand.
Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene
Title | Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene PDF eBook |
Author | Susan M. Cheyne |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2023-04-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1108479413 |
This volume brings together current research and practice on gibbon conservation, ecology, taxonomy and phylogenetics.