{"product_id":"9780520404243","title":"A Catalog of Benevolent Items : Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003eDistills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu.    � The Ben cao gang mu was 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.    � Edited and translated by Paul U. Unschuld, A Catalog of Benevolent Items provides thoughtfully curated selections from the Ben cao gang mu, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54819338944888,"sku":"9780520404243","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9780520404243.jpg?v=1732203367","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780520404243","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}