{"product_id":"a-catalog-of-benevolent-items-li-shizhen-9780520404236","title":"A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eDistills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the \u003ci\u003eBen cao gang mu\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The \u003ci\u003eBen cao gang mu \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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, and artificial substances and including countless verbatim quotations along with his own evaluations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edited and translated by Paul U. Unschuld, \u003ci\u003eA Catalog of Benevolent Items\u003c\/i\u003e provides thoughtfully curated selections from the \u003ci\u003eBen cao gang mu\u003c\/i\u003e, organized by theme. This anthology offers little-known details of China's historical knowledge of nature; traditional Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations; social and cultural facets of ancient Chinese civilization not documented elsewhere; and the information management of a sixteenth-century Chinese scholar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Li Shizhen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520404238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520404236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Li Shizhen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46136342085887,"sku":"9780520404236","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2c6767f-ee37-4c3c-87d5-4ea4519dcabb.jpg?v=1726416401","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-catalog-of-benevolent-items-li-shizhen-9780520404236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}