Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contextualizing Animals
The Animal and the Daemon
Animals as Images
1. Defining Animals
Problems of Definition
Animals in Texts
Naming Animals and Animal Names
Conclusion
2. Animals and Officers
Managing Animals
Ritual Animals
Animals and Spirits
Calendrical Animals
Conclusion
3. Categorizing Animals
Qi and Blood
Yinyang and the Five Phases: Correlative Taxonomies
Toward a Moral Taxonomy
Conclusion
4. The Animal and Territory
Animal Patterns as Social Patterns
Animals and Territory
Animals beyond Territory
Conclusion
5. Transforming the Beasts
Animals and the Origins of Music
Animals, Music, and Moral Transformation
The Transformation of Animals through Virtue
Moral Hybrids
Speaking with Birds and Beasts
Conclusion
6. Changing Animals
A Cosmogony of Change
Demonic Transformations
Functional Metamorphosis
Autonomous Transformations
Symbolic Metamorphosis
Portentous Transformations
Metamorphosing Agents
Critique of Change
Conclusion
7. Strange Animals
Defining the Strange
Interpreting the Strange
Confucius Names the Beasts
When the Grackos Nest in Lu
The Dog as Daemon
The Capture of the White Unicorn
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index