A bug's life: change and transformation in early modern China.
Chanting wasps and shape-shifting worms were all in a day's work for sixteenth-century Chinese naturalists such as Li Shizhen (1518-1593). In an effort to understand the metamorphoses of both nature and the human body, he and other early modern Chinese scholars looked towards tiny creatures like roundworms, lice and demon bugs. For them, such animals could reveal the most intimate secrets of the universe.
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Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA. nappi@montana.edu
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