Insect Histories of East Asia

by: David A. Bello (Author),Daniel Burton-Rose(Author)

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Publication Date: 13 Jun. 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 425 pages

ISBN-10: 0295751789

ISBN-13: 9780295751788

Book Description

Spotlights insects in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history from the exalted to the despisedInteractions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories of East Asia centers on bugs and creepy crawlies and the taxonomies in which they were embedded in China, Japan, and Korea to present a history of human and animal cocreation of habitats in ways that were both deliberate and unwitting. Using sources spanning from the earliest written records into the twentieth century, the contributors draw on a wide range of disciplines to explore the dynamic interaction between the notional insects that infested authors' imaginations and the six-legged creatures buzzing, hopping, and crawling around them.