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Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts by Christopher Cullen, Vivienne Lo (Hardcover, 2005)

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In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. The collection presented here is an example of the kind of international collaboration of research teams, centres and individuals that is required to begin to study the source materials adequately. The primary sources for this research come from a collection of medieval manuscripts discovered in 1900 in a walled-up room in the Buddhist cave-shrines of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, west China. Dunhuang was formerly an important Silk Road town, and formed the base of one of the first garrisons to be established during the Han period to secure the safe passage of soldiers, officials and traders between east and west. While the majority of the manuscripts stored in the cave are copies of Buddhist scriptural texts, there are also thousands of non-Buddhist texts, both religious and secular. The presence among these of some one hundred medical texts suggests that the Dunhuang prefectural school was a centre for copying and transmitting medical writings. In the collection we find the earliest handwritten copies of well-known classical medical treatises, together with hitherto unknown medical works, including illustrations and charts, texts related to religious and popular healing traditions and, excitingly, extensive portions of texts previously known only through brief quotations in later works. This is the first book to discuss this fascinating material in a western language in the century since the Dunhuang library was discovered, and it is likely to remain the only book of its kind in English for a considerable time.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415342957
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Author
Christopher Cullen, Vivienne Lo
Publication Name
Medieval Chinese Medicine: the Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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234mm
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156mm
Item Weight
816g

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Vivienne Lo, Christopher Cullen
Series Title
Needham Research Institute Series
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United Kingdom

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