Maos Bestiary by Liz P. Y. Chee PAPERBACK 9781478014041

Maos Bestiary\nby Liz P. Y. Chee\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Liz P. Y. Chee\nTitle: Maos Bestiary\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural anthropology\nPublisher: Duke University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781478014041\nISBN-10: 1478014040\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nControversy 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 med.