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TRANSFORMING THE BEASTS: ANIMALS AND MUSIC IN EARLY CHINA

TRANSFORMING THE BEASTS: ANIMALS AND MUSIC IN EARLY CHINA animals and music in early china 1 © Brill, Leiden, 2000 T’oung Pao LXXXVI TRANSFORMING THE BEASTS: ANIMALS AND MUSIC IN EARLY CHINA BY ROEL STERCKX University of Oxford * A salient feature of the discourse on animals in texts from the Warring States, Qin and Han periods is the absence of a tendency to analyse and discuss the animal world as the object of a distinct realm of knowledge. With the exception of a small number of text fragments which evince what approximates a “biological” interest in the animal world and a series of lexicographic entries organised according to proto-zoological headings in early dictio- naries— mainly the Erya and Xu Shen’s (ca. 30-124 C.E.) Shuowen jiezi — , attempts at analysing animal behaviour and at classifying animals into theoretically defined taxonomies or proto-biological categories are remarkably uncommon throughout early Chinese texts. 1 As such the early Chinese corpus sharply contrasts with the situation in ancient Greece, where by * I would like to thank Mark Edward Lewis for guiding me through the initial stages of research. I am also indebted to Robert Chard, Glen Dudbridge, and Ken Brashier for providing valuable comments on earlier versions of this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

TRANSFORMING THE BEASTS: ANIMALS AND MUSIC IN EARLY CHINA

Sterckx, Roel
T'oung Pao , Volume 86 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 2000
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© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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animals and music in early china 1 © Brill, Leiden, 2000 T’oung Pao LXXXVI TRANSFORMING THE BEASTS: ANIMALS AND MUSIC IN EARLY CHINA BY ROEL STERCKX University of Oxford * A salient feature of the discourse on animals in texts from the Warring States, Qin and Han periods is the absence of a tendency to analyse and discuss the animal world as the object of a distinct realm of knowledge. With the exception of a small number of text fragments which evince what approximates a “biological” interest in the animal world and a series of lexicographic entries organised according to proto-zoological headings in early dictio- naries— mainly the Erya and Xu Shen’s (ca. 30-124 C.E.) Shuowen jiezi — , attempts at analysing animal behaviour and at classifying animals into theoretically defined taxonomies or proto-biological categories are remarkably uncommon throughout early Chinese texts. 1 As such the early Chinese corpus sharply contrasts with the situation in ancient Greece, where by * I would like to thank Mark Edward Lewis for guiding me through the initial stages of research. I am also indebted to Robert Chard, Glen Dudbridge, and Ken Brashier for providing valuable comments on earlier versions of this

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