{"id":1056,"date":"2009-01-27T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:29","slug":"liveblogging-slowblogging-mammoth-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/01\/liveblogging-slowblogging-mammoth-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveblogging, slowblogging, Mammoth Blogging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McKay, at <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/\">Archy<\/a>, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/mammoths\">wooly mammoths<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/fragments-of-my-research-ii.html\">latest installment is about China<\/a>, particularly the Kangxi Emperor&#8217;s (r. 1661-1722) collection of mammoth-related materials and, surprisingly, personal contributions to the field. It seems that under Kangxi&#8217;s tutelage, the Chinese realized that the mammoth was most likely related to the elephant, after centuries of referring to it as a giant but uncategorized rodent. (Also, he&#8217;s looking for some help with consistent Romanizations.)<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, it inspired me to pull my copy of Elvin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MDVcfs56iQwC\">Retreat of the Elephants<\/a> off my &#8220;wanna read&#8221; shelf and go through the introduction and first few chapters, including &#8220;Humans v. Elephants: The Three Thousand Years War.&#8221; The charts and diagrams in the introduction are nearly worth the price of admission. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to have time to get through much more of it this semester, but the overlap with my <a href=\"http:\/\/dresnerchina.edublogs.org\/syllabi\/syllabus-early-china-hist-501-02-spring-2009\/\">Early China<\/a> class (especially using Hansen as the text, who does take environmental issues seriously) is significant, and I&#8217;m going to try to make the time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been known to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2008\/04\/studying-keenes-emperor-meiji\/\">assign absurdly long books<\/a> before; has anyone used Elvin in class?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McKay, at Archy, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of wooly mammoths. The latest installment is about China, particularly the Kangxi Emperor&#8217;s (r. 1661-1722) collection of mammoth-related materials and, surprisingly, personal contributions to the field. It seems that under Kangxi&#8217;s tutelage, the Chinese realized that the mammoth was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,99,100,165,120,63,153,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-blogs-and-carnivals","category-books","category-china","category-environment","category-japan","category-qing","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-h2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}