A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge

by Li Shizhen

Distills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu.

The Ben cao gang mu was the world's most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in China in 1593. In fifty-two chapters, the physician Li Shizhen recorded two millennia of medical observations, interpreting the wide-ranging uses of plants, animals, minerals,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520404246
• ISBN13: 9780520404243
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"