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January 8, 2024

Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Volume 1, Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

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Free Download Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu: Volume 1, Chinese Historical Illness Terminology By Paul U. Unschuld; Zhang Zhibin
2015 | 600 Pages | ISBN: 0520283953 | PDF | 14 MB
The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518 1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

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January 8, 2024

Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Volume 1, Chinese Historical Illness Terminology

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Free Download Dictionary of the Ben Cao Gang Mu: Volume 1, Chinese Historical Illness Terminology By Paul U. Unschuld; Zhang Zhibin
2015 | 600 Pages | ISBN: 0520283953 | PDF | 14 MB
The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518 1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

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August 17, 2023

The Poetry of Cao Zhi

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Free Download Robert Joe Cutter, "The Poetry of Cao Zhi "
English | ISBN: 1501515632 | 2021 | 390 pages | EPUB | 1336 KB
This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192-232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155-220) became the most powerful leader in a divided empire, and on his death, Cao Zhi’s elder brother Cao Pi (187-226) engineered the abdication of the last Han emperor, establishing himself as the founding emperor of the Wei Dynasty (220-265). Although Cao Zhi wanted to play an active role in government and military matters, he was not allowed to do so, and he is remembered as a writer.

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