Abstract
This chapter shifts the focus to the outside world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It traces the travels of the caterpillar fungus to France, Britain, Russia and Japan, while elucidating the key actors and their roles and efforts in cross-cultural contacts. The pursuit of new effective medicinal substances and natural-historical curiosities underlay the caterpillar fungus’s journeys overseas despite different bilateral settings. The functioning of the transnational networks for the caterpillar fungus illuminates the interplay between humans and nonhumans in the global production of natural knowledge.KeywordsDominicus ParenninJohn ReevesAlexander A. TatarinovCarl P. ThunbergCross-Cultural ContactMissionaryEnglish East India Company
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