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Birds in China
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ISBN: 083511967X Year: 1989 Publisher: Beijing Foreign Languages Press

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Falconry in the Mediterranean context during the pre-modern era
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ISBN: 9782600062367 260006236X Year: 2021 Publisher: Genève: Droz,

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Publication des actes du colloque organisé à Abu Dhabi en 2015 par Charles Burnett et B. Van den Abeele, contenant 17 articles concernant la fauconnerie médiévale et pré-moderne dans le monde méditerranéen: il y est question de textes arabes, espagnols, français, italiens, hébraïques et latins, des espèces d'oiseaux utilisés, des apports de l'archéologie, de l'iconographie politique de la fauconnerie.

A field guide to the birds of China
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ISBN: 0198549415 0198549407 9780198549413 9780198549406 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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China is one of the largest countries in the world, covering 7% of the earth's land surface, and encompassing a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps' important new guide will be the first truly comprehensive, taxonomically modern, and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of China. Over 1300 bird species are illustrated in 128 original colour paintings, by Karen Phillipps and Dave Showler. The species accounts stress the key points for field recognition and give a full description of the plumage, voice, range, distribution, status, and behavioural characteristics for every bird, with additional descriptions provided for hundreds of subspecies. Colour distribution maps are provided for all illustrated species. The book also includes a useful introductory section that presents a background to the ecology of China, a brief history of Chinese ornithology, and plenty of practical hints on birdwatching in China. The guide's portable format means it will fit easily into a backpack or pocket.


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Mouse vs. cat in Chinese literature : tales and commentary
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ISBN: 9780295744858 9780295744834 9780295744841 0295744847 0295744839 0295744855 Year: 2019 Publisher: Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press,

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"Wilt Idema presents Chinese tales about cats and mice, situating them in the Chinese literary tradition as a whole, and within Chinese imaginative depictions of animals. In the literatures of the ancient and modern Near East, South Asia, and medieval Europe, animal fables exhibited a range of anthropomorphic views, but Chinese literature is notable for its relative paucity of extended animal tales and rarity of talking animals. From ancient Egypt to China, rodents have long been vilified as thieves of grain in agrarian society, in perennial war with felines. Through varied depictions of the cat-mouse relationship, this set of tales allows to reader to consider the metaphorical roles of these animals in the Chinese literary imagination and to ponder their unusually prominent--and verbal--role in these stories. Of central focus is the legal case of the mouse against the cat in the underworld court of King Yama, a popular topic in the traditional ballad literature of late-imperial China and of present-day Chinese folk literature. Idema traces the development and variations of this theme of mice and cats in classical literature; to other stories of mice and cats in traditional vernacular literature; and to stories about the wedding of the mouse to the cat and the war between mice and cats. An epilogue traces the treatment of enmity between rodents and felines worldwide, and a foreword by Haiyan Lee explores the relevance of these tales to posthumanist consideration of human-animal relations. This entertaining volume will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and society, comparative literature, and animal studies in the humanities" --


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古代中国的动物与灵异
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ISBN: 9787214168689 7214168685 Year: 2015 Publisher: 南京 江苏人民出版社


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Wildlife conservation in China : preserving the habitat of China's wild west
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ISBN: 1315698161 1317452038 1282119583 9786612119583 0765624435 9780765624437 076562057X 9780765620576 9781282119581 9781315698168 9781317452034 6612119586 9781317452010 9781317452027 131745202X Year: 2015 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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What does the future hold for China's endangered wildlife? Drawing on 20 year's experience working in China, the leading U.S. expert on the subject incorporates perspectives ranging from biology to Chinese history and tradition to interpret wildlife conservation issues in a cultural context.

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