Animals In China

Author : Peter J. Li
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781743324714

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Animal Welfare in China by Peter J. Li Pdf

“Peter J. Li’s pathbreaking new book, Animal Welfare in China, is timely and valuable.” ANTHROZOÖS The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, speculation about the origins of the virus have sparked global curiosity Speculation about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked curiosity about how animals are treated, traded and consumed in China today. In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products. He considers how Chinese policymakers have approached these issues and speaks with activists from China’s growing animal rights movement. Li also offers an overview of the history of animal welfare in China, from ancient times through the enormous changes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Some practices that are today described as “traditional,” he argues, are in fact quite recent developments, reflecting the contemporary pursuit of economic growth rather than long-standing cultural traditions. Based on years of fieldwork and analysis, Animal Welfare in China makes a compelling case for a more nuanced and evidence-based approach to these complex issues.

Author : Roel Sterckx,Martina Siebert,Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108428156

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Animals Through Chinese History by Roel Sterckx,Martina Siebert,Dagmar Schäfer Pdf

This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Hellmut Epstein
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041573457

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Domestic Animals of China by Hellmut Epstein Pdf

Author : Liz P. Y. Chee
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478021353

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Mao's Bestiary by Liz P. Y. Chee Pdf

Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee demonstrates that the early Communist state expanded and systematized their production and use to compensate for drug shortages, generate foreign investment in high-end animal medicines, and facilitate an ideological shift toward legitimating folk medicines. Among other topics, Chee investigates the craze for chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the origins of deer antler farming under Mao and bear bile farming under Deng, and the crucial influence of the Soviet Union and North Korea on Chinese zootherapies. In the process, Chee shows Chinese medicine to be a realm of change rather than a timeless tradition, a hopeful conclusion given current efforts to reform its use of animals.

Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791489154

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Animal and the Daemon in Early China, The by Roel Sterckx Pdf

Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species - both as natural and cultural creatures - were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.

Author : Deborah Cao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137408020

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Animals in China by Deborah Cao Pdf

Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts.

Author : Ningning Dong
Publisher : International
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407357921

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Animal Classification in Central China by Ningning Dong Pdf

This book, integrating multiple lines of evidence and their contextual information, attempts to investigate folk animal classification in central China during the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age through archaeology.

Author : Dagmar Schäfer,Martina Siebert,Roel Sterckx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108551572

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Animals Through Chinese History by Dagmar Schäfer,Martina Siebert,Roel Sterckx Pdf

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative collection of essays spanning Chinese history reveals how relations between past and present, lived and literary reality, have been central to how information about animals and the natural world has been processed and evaluated in China. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, ranging from ritual texts to poetry to veterinary science, this volume explores developments in the human-animal relationship through Chinese history and the ways in which the Chinese have thought about the world with and through animals. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Anne Peters
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Animal welfare
ISBN : 9783662607565

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Studies in Global Animal Law by Anne Peters Pdf

This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to the mismatch between almost exclusively national animal-related legislation on the one hand, and the global dimension of the animal issue on the other hand. The chapters lay some historical foundations in the ius naturae et gentium, examine various aspects of how national and international law traditionally deals with animals as commodity; and finally suggest new legal concepts and protective strategies. The book shows numerous entry points for animal issues in international law and at the same time shifts the focus and scope of inquiry.

Author : William McShea
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781944466145

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Guide to the Wildlife of Southwest China by William McShea Pdf

Guide to the Wildlife of Southwest China allows readers to enter the fascinating world of Southwest China, a biodiverse hot spot teeming with interesting wildlife. This field guide, designed to inform nature reserve staff, students of natural history, and casual wildlife tourists alike, presents one hundred and thirty species along with detailed descriptions, a range map, and full color photographs..

Author : Richard B. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317452034

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Wildlife Conservation in China by Richard B. Harris Pdf

Very little is known about the issue of wildlife conservation within China. Even China specialists get a meager ration of stories about pandas giving birth in zoos, or poachers in some remote setting being apprehended. But what does the future hold for China's wildlife? In this thoughtful work the leading U.S. expert on wildlife projects in Western China presents a multi-faceted assessment of the topic. Richard B. Harris draws on twenty years of experience working in China, and incorporates perspectives ranging from biology through Chinese history and tradition, to interpret wildlife conservation issues in a cultural context. In non-technical language, Harris shows that, particularly in its vast western sections where most species of wildlife still have a chance to survive, China has adopted a strongly preservationist, "hands-off" approach to wildlife without confronting the larger and more difficult problem of habitat loss. This policy treats wildlife conservation as a strictly technical problem - and thus prioritizes captive breeding to meet the demand for animal products - while ignoring the manifold cultural, social, and economic dimensions that truly dictate how wild animals will fare in their interaction with the physical and human environments. The author concludes that any successes this policy achieves will be temporary.

Author : Liz Laidler,Keith Laidler
Publisher : Blandford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0713727055

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China's Threatened Wildlife by Liz Laidler,Keith Laidler Pdf

."..page format and liberal color photographs make this book visually appealing...Comparable to Time-Life or National Geographic publications...useful for high school students or public library patrons."-- "Library Journal . ."..packed with useful information..."-- "New Science .. 192 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Author : Li Liu,Xingcan Chen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521643108

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The Archaeology of China by Li Liu,Xingcan Chen Pdf

"Past, present and future "The archaeological materials recovered from the Anyang excavations ... in the period between 1928 and 1937 ... have laid a new foundation for the study of ancient China (Li, C. 1977: ix)." When inscribed oracle bones and enormous material remains were found through scientific excavation in Anyang in 1928, the historicity of the Shang dynasty was confirmed beyond dispute for the first time (Li, C. 1977: ix-xi). This excavation thus marked the beginning of a modern Chinese archaeology endowed with great potential to reveal much of China's ancient history.. Half a century later, Chinese archaeology had made many unprecedented discoveries which surprised the world, leading Glyn Daniel to believe that "a new awareness of the importance of China will be a key development in archaeology in the decades ahead (Daniel 1981: 211). This enthusiasm was soon shared by the Chinese archaeologists when Su Bingqi announced that "the Golden Age of Chinese archaeology is arriving (Su, B. 1994: 139--140)". In recent decades, archaeology has continuously prospered, becoming one of the most rapidly developing fields in social science in China"--

Author : Deborah Cao
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349553549

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Animals in China by Deborah Cao Pdf

Just as China is called the world factory for manufactured goods, it is also a world factory for manufactured animal cruelty in a new phenomenon of globalized animal cruelty. Animals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts.

Author : Henry Nicholls
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781847652911

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The Way of the Panda by Henry Nicholls Pdf

In a most original book, science writer Henry Nicholls uses the rich and curious story of the panda from its 'discovery' 150 years ago in the highlands of China to its present international status as endearing icon of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF - fifty years old in 2011) and shy darling of the world's zoos to do several things - to chart the emergence of modern China onto the global stage; to examine our changing attitude to the natural world; and to offer a compelling history of the conservation movement.