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Love is an emotion that takes a lifetime’s mistakes to realize. The novel tells love stories of a Shanghainese lady Jeren and three men over a thirty years’ time span since 1980s and reflects the social changes in China. In the novel, there are three and a half male protagonists, in accordance with the time order, they are Male A (Yinli), Male half (Lisheng), Male B (Brian) and Male C (Yuyi). Jeren was the sediment of two thousand years of Chinese tradition, she had a torch in heart since very young age, taught herself English and yearned to read Shakespeare in the original. After Jeren graduated from college, she fell in unrequited love with her colleague, an English teacher Yinli. Yinl...
Volume IV in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 15 through 17, devoted to marshland herbs and poisonous herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.
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A volume exploring the history of medicine across continents and countries from ancient to modern times, examining the changing systems of medicine in Eastern and Western traditions, comparing alternative medical practices, and introducing readers to how historians have captured the multiple approaches to healing adopted by different cultures.
A roadmap for easily navigating through the complexities of Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Modern Applications of Traditional Formulas presents information about herbal formulas in a practical and easy-to-access format. Bridging the gap between classroom study and the clinical setting, the book supplies information on disease sym