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Forests and forestry --- Land tenure --- Deforestation --- Forest management --- Economic aspects --- History --- China --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry --- History. --- Forest Management --- Forest Management. --- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 --- Forests and forestry - Economic aspects - China - History --- Land tenure - China - History --- Forests and forestry - China - History --- Deforestation - China - History --- Forest management - China - History --- China - History - Ch'ing dynasty, 1644-1912

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"English-language literature on the history of science is still stubbornly Euro-centric, and international scholarly discourse has engaged insufficiently with Chinese resources that document sophisticated premodern knowledge of the natural world. The case of botany is especially useful for investigating "traditional" systems of organization, classification, observation, and description and their transition to "modern" ones. China's vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants is best known but not limited to a rich corpus of Materia Medica. Written sources include horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose. Their authors were keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, their intent was to inquire into and to verify what had been written about plants in the referential classical texts rather than to deploy a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and explain new and unknown species or properties. Ordering the Myriad Things is the story of how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany over a period of about a hundred years between 1850 and 1950. A dramatic shift occurred during this period, from the "traditional" study and representation of plants as objects steeped in a rich cultural heritage to the "scientific" study of plants and organisms in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants, and investigations of their broader ecological status. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and unknown geographies, but fueled a new knowledge of China itself"--

Plants --- Botany --- Classification. --- Identification. --- History. --- Plants. --- History --- Identification --- Classification

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S19/0100 --- S20/0100 --- S20/0300 --- S20/0900 --- S19/0140 --- S20/0200 --- 63 <51> --- 63 <09> --- #SML: Chinese memorial library --- 63 <09> History of agriculture --- History of agriculture --- 63 <51> Agriculture and related sciences and techniques. Forestry. Farming. Wildlife exploitation--China --- Agriculture and related sciences and techniques. Forestry. Farming. Wildlife exploitation--China --- China: Natural sciences--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Agricultural production and production methods: general and before 1949 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Forestry: general and before 1949 --- China: Natural sciences--History of sciences --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--General works and before 1949 (incl. traditional Chinese works and the Yueling)

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