Medicine in China-Nan Ching

Medicine in China-Nan Ching: Classic of Difficulties

Code: BK2120

  Unschuld, P.
  1995
  Basic Chinese medicine - B01
  Chinese Medicine (B1-B4)

Description

The author combines the translation of the text of the Nan Ching with selected commentaries by 20 Chinese & Japanese authors from the past 17th Cent.This work will shape the study of Chinese Medicine in years to come. - By Paul Unschuld (1986) 759pp

Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited because, until now, not a single Chinese classical medical text has been available in a serious philosophical translation. In the present book Paul Unschuld offers, for the first time in any Western language, a complete translation of an ancient Chinese medical classic, the Nan-Ching. The translation adheres to rigid sinological standards and applies philological and historiographic methods.

The original text Nan-Ching was complied during the first century A.D. by an unknown author. From that time forward, this ancient text provoked an ongoing stream of commentaries. Following the Sung era, it was misidentified as merely an explanatory sequel to the classic of the Yellow Emperor, the Huang-Ti Nei-Ching.

With this volume, however, Unschuld demonstrates that the Nan-Ching should once again be regarded as a significant and innovative text in itself.

This translation is an accomplishment of monumental proportions and will be of interest to anyone interested in the ancient Chinese concepts of health care and therapy.

Date reviewed

12/01/1996

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