The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet

The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet

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Book Info

Author

Mueggler, Erik

Word Count

94,000 words

based on page count

Pages

376 pages

Edition Publisher

University of California Press

Edition Publish Date

2011-11-02

Identifiers

ISBN-10: 0520269039

ISBN-13: 9780520269033

Description

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.

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