{"product_id":"a-catalog-of-benevolent-items-li-shizhen-9780520404243","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 evaluated the wisdom of two millennia about plants, animals, minerals, and artificial substances used in medicine and collected it with countless verbatim quotations and his own supplementary comments. \u003ci\u003eA Catalog of Benevolent Items\u003c\/i\u003e provides the first single-volume introduction to this vast record of the classical Chinese world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edited and translated by Paul U. Unschuld, a leading expert on historical Chinese medical texts, 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. Thoughtfully curated and organized by theme, \u003ci\u003eA Catalog of Benevolent Items \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an accessible gateway to this foundational work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Li Shizhen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520404246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520404243\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 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Li Shizhen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45265365467391,"sku":"9780520404243","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9ac106d-e1d7-4e88-bf34-15b34e11bd1f.jpg?v=1713420735","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-catalog-of-benevolent-items-li-shizhen-9780520404243","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}