Abstract The Westward spread of Chinese medical knowledge in 17th century was marked
by the Polish missionary Michael Boym's extraordinary contribution in transmitting medical …

Difficulties in rendering into English the Chinese term xie have dogged historians of Chinese
medicine working in different historical periods and social/religious contexts. A core …

What did the early Chinese medical body look like before it was inhabited by the five viscera
and before canonical medical rationale was framed in terms of the five agents (wuxing …

Traditional Chinese medicine, often abbreviated as TCM, is a term coined in the People's
Republic of China in the 1950s to translate the Chinese zhongyi. It refers to a form of …

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the
nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural …

If you read almost any textbook about Chinese medicine, you will find that the identity and
authority of traditional Chinese medicine remain firmly rooted in references to classical …

景 (c. 150–219 AD), Essential Synopsis of the Golden Cabinet 金匱要略 (c. 210), juan
12,'Tanyin kesou bing maizheng bingzhi 痰飲咳嗽病脈證并治'. The character tan 痰 in this …

Even amid heated discussion of anthropology's turn to ontology since 2000, East Asia has
remained almost an invisible area of research, having seldom been part of the new mode of …

Studies on the terminology of expert knowledge tend toneglect the relevance of sociological
data, in spiteof general acceptance that knowledge and socialpractice are interdependent …

How did a new science initially promoted by just a few individuals eventually become a
widespread cultural phenomenon practised and known by thousands of people? This thesis …