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What Exactly is a <i>Sum Xu</i> ?: The Real Animal behind Michał Boym’s Famous Description and the Linguistic Predicaments of Early Modern Knowledge Transmission

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cris.lastimport.scopus2024-02-12T20:39:18Z
dc.abstract.enThis article aims to resolve the academic debate over the identity of the mysterious animal Sum Xu described in Michał Boym’s Flora sinensis. Through examining various Chinese sources published in the seventeenth century and the vocabulary they used to characterize creatures belonging to the Rodentia and Carnivora orders, the essay demonstrates that the animal at stake was most likely a weasel (Mustela), either Siberian (M. sibirica) or Japanese (M. itatsi), and that it was commonly known under the name song shu, even though in modern Mandarin this term is reserved for the squirrel. Additionally, the article investigates methodological problems arising from studying the import of Chinese terminology into the European context and suggests that scholars should consider the unstable linguistic diversity of Ming China when discussing the transfer of knowledge from the East to the West in the early modern period.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorKozik, Albert
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T11:57:10Z
dc.date.available2024-01-26T11:57:10Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number2
dc.description.volume71
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02549948.2023.2263281
dc.identifier.issn0254-9948
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/124921
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02549948.2023.2263281
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationculture and religion studies
dc.relation.ispartofMonumenta Serica
dc.relation.pages415-436
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.en: Michał BoymChen Haozi, Flora sinensis, Sum Xunatural history, knowledge transmissionJesuit studies, Hua jing
dc.titleWhat Exactly is a <i>Sum Xu</i> ?: The Real Animal behind Michał Boym’s Famous Description and the Linguistic Predicaments of Early Modern Knowledge Transmission
dc.typeJournalArticle
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