Title Ben cao gang mu dictionary. Volume two, Geographical and administrative designations / edited by Hua Linfu, Paul D. Buell, and Paul U. Unschuld

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Ben cao gang mu Project -- 2. Scope and Purpose of the Dictionary -- 3. The Chinese Geographical World View -- 4. Some General Remarks on the History of Chinese Administration -- 5. A Brief Survey of the History of Chinese Administrative Geography -- 6. Non-Chinese Places and Peoples -- 7. The Methodology of Identifying Geographical and Administrative Designations -- 8. Pharmaceutical Substances -- 9. The Structure of Entries in the Present -- 0. Administrative Terminology in Detail -- Bibliography -- II Geographical and Administrative Designations -- Appendix A Chinese Dynasties -- Appendix B Numbers of Pharmaceutically Relevant Substances Mentioned in Connection with Geographic and Administrative Designations -- Appendix C Index of Entries of Geographic and Administrative Designations Summary 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 second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances Notes "A volume of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Project." Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2016) Subject Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. Ben cao gang mu. SUBJECT Ben cao gang mu (Li, Shizhen) fast Subject Medicine, Chinese -- History -- 16th century Medicine, Chinese -- Dictionaries Materia medica, Vegetable -- China MEDICAL -- Pharmacology. Materia medica, Vegetable Medicine, Chinese China Genre/Form Dictionaries History Form Electronic book Author Hua, Linfu, editor ISBN 9780520965553 0520965558

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