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Nan-Ching - The Classic of Difficult Issues (Paperback)
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Nan-Ching - The Classic of Difficult Issues (Paperback)
Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 18
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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 philological
translation. The present book 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 of the Nan-ching was compiled 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. This volume, however, demonstrates that the
Nan-ching should once again be regarded as a significant and
innovative text in itself. It marked the apex and the conclusion of
the initial development phase of a conceptual system of health care
based on the doctrines of the Five Phases and yinyang. As the
classic of the medicine of systematic correspondence, the Nan-ching
covers all aspects of theoretical and practical health care within
these doctrines in an unusually systematic fashion. Most important
is its innovative discussion of pulse diagnosis and needle
treatment. Unschuld combines the translation of the text of the
Nan-ching with selected commentaries by twenty Chinese and Japanese
authors from the past seventeen centuries. These commentaries
provide insights into the processes of reception and transmission
of ancient Chinese concepts from the Han era to the present time,
and shed light on the issue of progress in Chinese medicine.
Central to the book, and contributing to a completely new
understanding of traditional Chinese medical thought, is the
identification of a "patterned knowledge" that characterizes-in
contrast to the monoparadigmatic tendencies in Western science and
medicine-the literature and practice of traditional Chinese health
care. Unschuld's translation of the Nan-ching is an accomplishment
of monumental proportions. Anthropologists, historians, and
sociologists as well as general readers interested in traditional
Chinese medicine-but who lack Chinese language abilities-will at
last have access to ancient Chinese concepts of health care and
therapy. Filling an enormous gap in the literature, Nan-ching-The
Classic of Difficult Issues is the kind of landmark work that will
shape the study of Chinese medicine for years to come. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1986.
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