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A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

Shizhen, Li
Unschuld, Paul U.

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceChinese HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520404238
ISBN13: 9780520404236
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Distills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu.

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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