Ben cao gang mu. Volume II, Waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, salts : 16th century Chinese encyclopedia of materia medica and natural history / by Li Shizhen ; the complete Chinese text translated and annotated by Paul U. Unschuld.

By:

Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- [translator,, editor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Chinese Original language: Chinese Series: The Ben cao gang mu series ; vol. IIPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (905 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520976979
0520976975

Other title:

Waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, salts

Uniform titles:

Ben cao gang mu. English (Unschuld)

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Early works

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ben cao gang mu. Volume II, Waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, salts.DDC classification:

615.3/210951 23

LOC classification:

RS180.C5 L5213 2021

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Summary: Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

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Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

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