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The Chinese monster who never was
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Dragon Lady By Sterling Seagrave.
Knopf. $30.
No more complaints about history being dull, please. Here we
offer not only murder but massacres, not only intrigue but whole
regimes undermined, not only yellow journalism but a whole continent,
a whole quarter of the world's population, slandered and spat upon by
vile, opportunistic, probably psychotic reporters and chroniclers.
God knows the Chinese rulers of the 19th century were an odd
mixture of effete civilization and cold-blooded barbarism. But look
at the resident Westerners: in the name of Christianity and good
manners, they killed ...
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The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present, and Future1
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
; ...Forkl and Karl Peter Thunberg, the first field taxonomists to visit Asia, and the pioneering insect taxonomist Johan Christian Fabricius. The systematic exploration of the biosphere had begun, in what today can legitimately be called the Linnaean...
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