Title The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / Erik Mueggler

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 361 pages) : illustrations Series ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents pt. 1. The eyes of others -- Farmers and kings -- The paper road -- The golden mountain gate -- pt. 2. Bodies real and virtual -- Lost worlds -- The mountain -- Adventurers -- The book of the Earth Summary "This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied, translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2013 Print version record Subject Forrest, George, 1873-1932 -- Travel Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1884-1962 -- Travel SUBJECT Forrest, George, 1873-1932 fast Rock, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1884-1962 fast Subject Botany -- Fieldwork -- China -- Yunnan Sheng -- History -- 20th century Botany -- Fieldwork -- China -- Gansu Sheng -- History -- 20th century Botany -- Fieldwork -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History -- 20th century Botanists -- Scotland -- Biography Botanists -- United States -- Biography NATURE -- Plants -- General. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Botanists Travel Botany. Earth & Environmental Sciences. Plant Geography. SUBJECT Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Description and travel Gansu Sheng (China) -- Description and travel Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel Subject China -- Gansu Sheng China -- Tibet Autonomous Region China -- Yunnan Sheng Scotland United States Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011017740 ISBN 9780520950498 0520950496 1283291886 9781283291880

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