Insect Histories of East Asia

David A. Bello is E. L. Otey Professor of East Asian Studies and director of East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University. His most recent book is Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. Daniel Burton-Rose is visiting assistant professor of history of science, technology, and the environment at Wake Forest University. He is East Asia editor of the journal Asian Medicine. Contributors: Lijing Jiang, Olivia Milburn, Sang-ho Ro, Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Kerry Smith, and Federico Valenti

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terms and Conventions

Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries

Introduction David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose

Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong

1. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China

Federico Valenti

2. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature

Olivia Milburn

3. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Mårten Söderblom Saarela



Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power

4. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China

David A. Bello

5. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea

Sang-ho Ro

6. "Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies": Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan

Kerry Smith



Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China

7. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period

Daniel Burton-Rose

8. The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the "Species Problem" in Socialist China

Lijing Jiang



Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms

Bibliography

Contributors

Index