Description: Catalog of Benevolent Items : Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge, Hardcover by Shizhen, Li; Unschuld, Paul U. (TRN), ISBN 0520404238, ISBN-13 9780520404236, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Catalog of Benevolent Items : Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classica
Number of Pages: 410 Pages
Publication Name: Catalog of Benevolent Items : Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge, Selected Entries from the Ben Cao Gang Mu
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Pharmacy, Asia / China, Acupuncture
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27 Oz
Author: Li Shizhen
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Medical, History
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
