Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu: Volume 3, Persons and Literary Sources PDF
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Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Volume Three Persons and Literary Sources Zheng Jinsheng, Nalini Kirk, Paul D. Buell, and Paul U. Unschuld A Volume of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Project Paul U. Unschuld, General Editor University of California Press Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Volume Three Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Volume Three Persons and Literary Sources Zheng Jinsheng, Nalini Kirk, Paul D. Buell, and Paul U. Unschuld A Volume of the Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Project Paul U. Unschuld, General Editor University of California Press University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and in- stitutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ben cao gang mu dictionary / edited by Zhang Zhibin, Paul U. Unschuld. volumes cm Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Volume 1. Chinese historical illness terminology.—Volume 2. Geographical and Administrative Designations.—Volume 3. Persons and Literary Sources. ISBN 978-0-520-29197-3 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-520-96556-0 (ebook) 1. Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. Ben cao gang mu. 2. Medicine, Chinese—History—16th century. 3. Medicine, Chinese—Dictionaries. 4. Materia medica, Vegetable— China. I. Zhang, Zhibin, 1953– editor. II. Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943– editor. III. Title: Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu. RS180.C5B45 2015 615.3 210951—dc23 2014018742 Manufactured in the United States of America 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments / 7 I. Introduction / 9 1. The Ben cao gang mu Project / 9 2. The Two Conflicting Origins of Chinese Medicine and Pharmaceutics / 11 3. Chinese Materia Medica Literature / 13 4. The Sources Cited / 15 4.1. Materia Medica and Medical Texts / 15 4.3 Sources Beyond Materia Medica and Medical Literature / 16 5. The Dictionary Entries / 19 5.1. Bibliographical Entries: / 19 5.2. Biographical Entries: / 23 II. Persons and Literary Sources / 27 III. Appendices / 699 Appendix A Chinese Dynasties / 701 Appendix B Index of Substance Entry (SE) in Alphabetical Order / 705 Appendix C List of Entries of Names of Persons / 711 Appendix D List of Entries of Literary Sources / 755 Acknowledgments The research leading to the preparation of this volume of the Ben cao gang mu Dic- tionary was financed by Stiftung Volkswagenwerk. The institutional framework en- abling us to pursue this project was the Horst-Goertz-Stiftungsinstitut, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, funded by the Horst-Goertz-Foundation from 2006 through 2013. Martin Huber, Klaus Neugebauer and David Dornier, as well as the 遠大 Chinese Broad Group Yuan da , generously provided us with additional sup- port to continue our work into 2017 and complete the compilation of this volu- 郑金生 me. Prof. Zheng Jinsheng , retired Director of the Research Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Literature, the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, laid the foundations to the present volume by researching and documenting all Chinese data required. Nalini Kirk assisted him in his research. These data have been re-arranged and were translated into English by Paul D. Buell, Nalini Kirk and myself. Nalini Kirk succeeded in homogenizing our different levels of language and style. Siglinde Mooney assisted in technical matters. Christine Hu gave the manuscript its final layout. I am most grateful to all these individuals and institutions for their belief in this project and their conceptual as well as financial support. Paul U. Unschuld Berlin, March 2017 I. INTrOduCTION 1. The Ben cao gang mu Project This is the third volume of a project aiming at providing better access to the Ben 本草綱目 cao gang mu (BCGM) , China’s great encyclopedia of pharmaceutical lore, first published in 1593 and designated a world cultural heritage text in 2012. In addi- tion to the current volume, which focuses on identifying personal names mentioned and literary sources quoted in the BCGM, three others will complete the Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu. They include the first volume, published in 2015, on “Chinese historical illness terminology,” and a second volume, published in 2016, tracing all “geographical and administrative designations” mentioned in connection with the more than 1,900 pharmaceutically usable substances listed in the BCGM. A fourth volume will offer a historical survey of the identifications of all pharmaceutical substances mentioned in the BCGM. The BCGM was composed over more than three decades from perhaps 1547 until 李時珍 1580. Li Shizhen (1508–1593), who turned to his family tradition of medicine after failing the imperial exams required for entering the civil service, is traditionally named its sole author. In his preface, he mentions assistance provided by several family members. The sheer volume of about 1.6 million Chinese characters written to complete the fifty-one chapters of the BCGM suggests, though, the involvement of a team of collaborators exceeding the limited number of his family members. No information is available to identify the size of the team that collected all the data from a vast body of texts of all possible genres and wrote them down within a relatively short period. 明 Li Shizhen was a practicing doctor and lived at the end of the Ming dynasty. By his time, China had largely turned its back on much of the outside world (with the exception of neighboring inner Southeast Asia) and entered a period of insular- 9
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