Carla Nappi
Biographic Data
| ID | 207241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Nappi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Nappi |
| SIGNATURE | NAPPI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translating Early Modern China
The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in Chin…
Hide and Seek
This response takes up the final question offered by David Lurie's essay: "In the end, is it ever possible to write a fully nonallegorical history of writing's origins?" by considering the nature of allegory, its relationship to hiding and invisibility, and the material quality of its character when invoked to describe an origin
Reading Needham Now
What possible futures can be opened up by creatively reading an encyclopedic text not as a repository for information and historical facts but along two other lines instead: as an archive of concepts and of generative narrative detritus? This essay will reencounter Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) according to these two readings. Reading collaboratively, the authors proceed through the early, more general volumes of SCC. M…
Imagining History/Writing Late Imperial China
Imagining History/Writing Late Imperial China Carla Nappi (bio) We can imagine them sitting in a room around a table, enjoying a lazy dinner. The translators, the movers of words, the anatomists of language, the architects of broken and breakable structures. The Siamese interpreter, Women La and his colleagues. Wang Zilong, the student of Mongolian language, and Qoninci, the author of his textbook. (They’ve come as a couple, though they lived mor…
Paying Attention
To move away from histories of early modern science that are shaped by the notion of a Scientific Revolution, the essay proposes a historiographical methodology that moves away from genealogy and toward juxtaposition as a principle of storytelling. It briefly discusses the study of sound in early modern Manchu texts as an example of this #hashtag (or juxtapositional) history
The Global and Beyond
As we strive for a more polyvocal history of science, historians have placed increasing emphasis on local case studies as a way to globalize the field. This tension between the local and the global extends to the practice as well as the content of the history of science, as the field has begun to pay more attention not just to local case studies, but also to local cultures of historiography. Many historians of science want multiple historiographi…
Disengaging from “Asia”
While the emerging field of (East) Asian STS presents a wealth of opportunities, it also raises a number of issues that bear further examination. This essay briefly discusses the ways that categories of identity shape the project of STS in and of Asia and the consequences that arise for scholarly practice within the discipline
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
Toby E. Huff. Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv + 354 pp. index. illus. bibl. 27.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–1–107–00082–7 (cl), 978–0–521–17052–9 (pbk). - Volume 64 Issue 3
Other-worldly
Shifts in attention biases in response to acute pain induction
Unlike most people, those who are characterized by a repressive coping style report high levels of physical (sensory) pain but low levels of emotional distress (affective pain), which is a discrepancy that may suggest a "conversion" process. In two studies, we tested an attention allocation model, proposing that repressors direct attention away from threatening negative affective information and toward nonthreatening physical pain information dur…
Renaissances
Jack Goody. Renaissances: The One or the Many?.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x + 322 pp. + 8 color and 2 b/w pls. index. append. chron. bibl. 27.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–521–76801–6 (cl), 978–0–521–74516–1 (pbk). - Volume 63 Issue 3
Bolatu's Pharmacy Theriac in Early Modern China
In early modem China, natural history and medicine were shifting along with the boundaries of the empire. Naturalists struggled to cope with a pharmacy's worth of new and unfamiliar substances, texts, and terms, as plants, animals, and the drugs made from them travelled into China across land and sea. One crucial aspect of this phenomenon was the early modern exchange between Islamic and Chinese medicine. The history of theriac illustrates the im…
The Global and Beyond
As we strive for a more polyvocal history of science, historians have placed increasing emphasis on local case studies as a way to globalize the field. This tension between the local and the global extends to the practice as well as the content of the history of science, as the field has begun to pay more attention not just to local case studies, but also to local cultures of historiography. Many historians of science want multiple historiographi…
Bolatu's Pharmacy Theriac in Early Modern China
In early modem China, natural history and medicine were shifting along with the boundaries of the empire. Naturalists struggled to cope with a pharmacy's worth of new and unfamiliar substances, texts, and terms, as plants, animals, and the drugs made from them travelled into China across land and sea. One crucial aspect of this phenomenon was the early modern exchange between Islamic and Chinese medicine. The history of theriac illustrates the im…
Bolatu's Pharmacy Theriac in Early Modern China
In early modem China, natural history and medicine were shifting along with the boundaries of the empire. Naturalists struggled to cope with a pharmacy's worth of new and unfamiliar substances, texts, and terms, as plants, animals, and the drugs made from them travelled into China across land and sea. One crucial aspect of this phenomenon was the early modern exchange between Islamic and Chinese medicine. The history of theriac illustrates the im…
Shifts in attention biases in response to acute pain induction
Unlike most people, those who are characterized by a repressive coping style report high levels of physical (sensory) pain but low levels of emotional distress (affective pain), which is a discrepancy that may suggest a "conversion" process. In two studies, we tested an attention allocation model, proposing that repressors direct attention away from threatening negative affective information and toward nonthreatening physical pain information dur…
Renaissances
Jack Goody. Renaissances: The One or the Many?.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x + 322 pp. + 8 color and 2 b/w pls. index. append. chron. bibl. 27.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–0–521–76801–6 (cl), 978–0–521–74516–1 (pbk). - Volume 63 Issue 3
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
Toby E. Huff. Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv + 354 pp. index. illus. bibl. 27.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978–1–107–00082–7 (cl), 978–0–521–17052–9 (pbk). - Volume 64 Issue 3
Other-worldly
Disengaging from “Asia”
While the emerging field of (East) Asian STS presents a wealth of opportunities, it also raises a number of issues that bear further examination. This essay briefly discusses the ways that categories of identity shape the project of STS in and of Asia and the consequences that arise for scholarly practice within the discipline
The Global and Beyond
As we strive for a more polyvocal history of science, historians have placed increasing emphasis on local case studies as a way to globalize the field. This tension between the local and the global extends to the practice as well as the content of the history of science, as the field has begun to pay more attention not just to local case studies, but also to local cultures of historiography. Many historians of science want multiple historiographi…
Paying Attention
To move away from histories of early modern science that are shaped by the notion of a Scientific Revolution, the essay proposes a historiographical methodology that moves away from genealogy and toward juxtaposition as a principle of storytelling. It briefly discusses the study of sound in early modern Manchu texts as an example of this #hashtag (or juxtapositional) history
Imagining History/Writing Late Imperial China
Imagining History/Writing Late Imperial China Carla Nappi (bio) We can imagine them sitting in a room around a table, enjoying a lazy dinner. The translators, the movers of words, the anatomists of language, the architects of broken and breakable structures. The Siamese interpreter, Women La and his colleagues. Wang Zilong, the student of Mongolian language, and Qoninci, the author of his textbook. (They’ve come as a couple, though they lived mor…
Hide and Seek
This response takes up the final question offered by David Lurie's essay: "In the end, is it ever possible to write a fully nonallegorical history of writing's origins?" by considering the nature of allegory, its relationship to hiding and invisibility, and the material quality of its character when invoked to describe an origin
Reading Needham Now
What possible futures can be opened up by creatively reading an encyclopedic text not as a repository for information and historical facts but along two other lines instead: as an archive of concepts and of generative narrative detritus? This essay will reencounter Joseph Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) according to these two readings. Reading collaboratively, the authors proceed through the early, more general volumes of SCC. M…
Translating Early Modern China
The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in Chin…
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