Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach (SCC Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4)

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Acknowledgements for Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Series Editor’s Preface
Author’s Note
38 (2) TRADITIONAL BOTANY: AN ETHNOBOTANICAL APPROACH
	Introduction
	(f) The sources of traditional botany and the various classifications
		(1) Texts of an encyclopaedic nature
		(2) The development of the various classifications
			i From the archaic period to the Song dynasty
			ii The Ming and Qing dynasties: works of materia medica
			iii The Ming and Qing dynasties: horticultural and agricultural texts
			iv The Ming and Qing dynasties: texts of an encyclopaedic nature
			v The Ming and Qing dynasties: notes by literati
			vi Plant classifications: an attempt at a synthesis
	(g) The description and illustration of plants
		(1) The canonical state of description: the Er ya and the Shuo wen pie zi
		(2) Exotic monographs
		(3) The description and illustration of plants under the Song
		(4) The description and illustration of plants under the Ming
		(5 ) An original example of a traditional botanist Cheng Yaotian
		(6 ) The case of tong trees
	(h) Knowledge of plant life
		(1) The perception of plant life
			i   Fundamental ideas
			ii  Plants soil and climate
			iii Plants and time
			iv  Plants and regions
			v   Plants and minerals: plants that indicate minerals
			vi  Plants and minerals: plants that are sources of minerals
			vi  Plants and minerals: reciprocal actions
			vii Relations between plants
			ix  Plants and humans
			x   The properties of plants
			xi  Attempts at synthesis: plant life
			xii Conceptions of the global functioning of plants
			xiii Conclusion
			xiv An external but close view: Kaibara Ekiken
		(2) On the sex of plants
			i  A historical reminder
			ii The Chinese view
			iii The case of hemp
			iv  Other sexualised grasses
			v The sex of trees
		(3) Parasitism and the epiphytic condition
		(4) Aquatic plants
			i Water grasses
			ii Algae
		(5) Fungi
			i   Prologue
			ii  Sources
			iii Treatises
			iv  Toxicity
			v   The characteristics of mushrooms
			vi  An attempt at determination
	(i) Horticulture and its techniques
		(1) Prologue
		(2) Treatises on horticulture
		(3) Gardens
			i Definitions
			ii A glimpse of the great parks of antiquity
			iii Literati and plants
		(4) Fruit production
			i  A glimpse of origins
			ii The improvement of quality and productivity
			iii The preservation and transformation of fruits
		(5) Grafting and vegetative propagation
	(j) Plants and botanical exchanges: the Chinese contribution to the rest of the world
		(1) Plant transmissions and exchanges of knowledge
			i  Plants introduced into China
			ii The diffusion of Chinese botanical knowledge to Japan
			iii The discovery of Chinese flora by westerners
		(2) The influence of Chinese gardens on Europe
			i  Paper gardens: the basic texts
			ii Chinese plants in Europe
	(k) Conclusion
		(1) The Zhi wu ming shi tu kao
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
	A Chinese and Japanese books before 1800
	B Chinese and Japanese books and journal articles since 1800
	C Books and journal articles in Western languages
GENERAL INDEX