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Mu Cao
Mu Cao is a bold, pioneering Chinese novelist who dares to challenge the status quo-living openly gay in China and shedding a strong light on the plight of everyday Chinese…
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Shizhen Li
Volume VI in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 26 through 33, devoted to vegetables and fruits.
The Ben cao gang mu is a…
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Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods.
The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese…
Volume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of chapters 1 and 2 and portions of…
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Volume I is divided into two parts. Part B of volume I in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of portions of chapter 3 and the complete…
Those who know me call me Old He, and they also know that I’ve worked in a crematorium for my entire life. Here begins Mu Cao’s novel In the Face…
Hua Linfu,Paul D. Buell
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, this…
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Zheng Jinsheng,Nalini Kirk,Paul D. Buell
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…
Li Shizhen
Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs.
The Ben cao gang mu…
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.
Zhibin Zhang,Paul U. Unschuld
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…
Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances.
The Ben…
Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts.
The…
Volume VIII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals…
Volume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and…
