A Catalog of Benevolent Items
Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge
The University of California Press
ISBN 978-0-520-40424-3
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Buch. Softcover
2024
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 410 S.
Format (B x L): 15,2 x 22,9 cm
Gewicht: 544
Verlag: The University of California Press
ISBN: 978-0-520-40424-3
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The Ben cao gang mu was the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in China in 1593. In fifty-two chapters, the physician Li Shizhen recorded two millennia of medical observations, interpreting the wide-ranging uses of plants, animals, minerals, and artificial substances and including countless verbatim quotations along with his own evaluations.
Edited and translated by Paul U. Unschuld, A Catalog of Benevolent Items provides thoughtfully curated selections from the Ben cao gang mu, organized by theme. This anthology offers little-known details of China’s historical knowledge of nature; traditional Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations; social and cultural facets of ancient Chinese civilization not documented elsewhere; and the information management of a sixteenth-century Chinese scholar.
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