Early Chinese Medical Literature

By Donald Harper

Book Overview

First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138968080
• ISBN13: 9781138968080
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.7"