Acknowledgments

A Note on Terms and Conventions

Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries

Introduction David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose

Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong

1. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China

Federico Valenti

2. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature

Olivia Milburn

3. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Mårten Söderblom Saarela



Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power

4. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China

David A. Bello

5. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea

Sang-ho Ro

6. "Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies": Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan

Kerry Smith



Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China

7. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period

Daniel Burton-Rose

8. The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the "Species Problem" in Socialist China

Lijing Jiang



Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms

Bibliography

Contributors

Index