Roel Sterckx is University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge and a former Junior Research Fellow of Woltson College, Oxford.
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Contextualizing Animals
1
(4)
The Animal and the Daemon
5
(3)
Animals as Images
8
(7)
Defining Animals
15
(30)
Problems of Definition
16
(5)
Animals in Texts
21
(8)
Naming Animals and Animal Names
29
(13)
Conclusion
42
(3)
Animals and Officers
45
(24)
Managing Animals
46
(10)
Ritual Animals
56
(5)
Animals and Spirits
61
(3)
Calendrical Animals
64
(3)
Conclusion
67
(2)
Categorizing Animals
69
(24)
Qi and Blood
73
(5)
Yinyang and the Five Phases: Correlative Taxonomies
78
(10)
Toward a Moral Taxonomy
88
(3)
Conclusion
91
(2)
The Animal and Territory
93
(30)
Animal Patterns as Social Patterns
96
(5)
Animals and Territory
101
(9)
Animals beyond Territory
110
(12)
Conclusion
122
(1)
Transforming the Beasts
123
(42)
Animals and the Origins of Music
124
(5)
Animals, Music, and Moral Transformation
129
(8)
The Transformation of Animals through Virtue
137
(16)
Moral Hybrids
153
(5)
``Speaking with Birds and Beasts''
158
(4)
Conclusion
162
(3)
Changing Animals
165
(40)
A Cosmogony of Change
167
(4)
Demonic Transformations
171
(2)
Functional Metamorphosis
173
(4)
Autonomous Transformations
177
(9)
Symbolic Metamorphosis
186
(8)
Portentous Transformations
194
(4)
Metamorphosing Agents
198
(2)
Critique of Change
200
(3)
Conclusion
203
(2)
Strange Animals
205
(34)
Defining the Strange
206
(5)
Interpreting the Strange
211
(5)
Confucius Names the Beasts
216
(9)
When the Grackos Nest in Lu
225
(6)
The Dog as Daemon
231
(2)
The Capture of the White Unicorn
233
(4)
Conclusion
237
(2)
Conclusion
239
(6)
Notes
245
(76)
Bibliography
321
(32)
Index
353
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