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Ben cao gang mu dictionary. Volume two, Geographical and administrative designations /

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. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hua, Linfu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.