Category：Healthcare & Lifestyle
中医典故 Compendium of Chinese Medical
Wisdom [English]
By XIA Yun, XU Jingsheng
Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) is an integral part of Chinese traditional culture, and is the only traditional medical system in the world that had survived thousands of years and remains in practice. To understand Chinese medical culture, one needs to approach from the angles of pharmacy, ethics, classics, and social impacts of TCM. Compendium of Chinese Medical Wisdom contains inspirational stories about ethical doctors and noble individuals, as well as broadly relevant principles such as “applying medicine according to the symptom” “extreme joy begets sorrow” “better preventing disease than treating it” and so on. Informative and interesting, these contents are of both medical and humanistic concerns. It is much more portable and friendly to English speakers and learners who are interested in TCM and Chinese traditional culture in general.
Author
XU Jingsheng (许敬生), Professor at Henan University on Traditional Chinese Medicine. He previously chaired the Committee on Medical Classics Research affiliated with the China Association of Chinese Medicine, and now serves as the honorary chair of the Committee. He has won the title of “National Distinguished Professor in Medical Classics, and was recognized as an “Expert on TCM Classics and LinguisticStudies” entrusted to train the next generation with his expertise. Now Professor Xu serves as deputy chair of the editing committee of Traditional Chinese Medical Culture, chair of the Henan Association of Studies on Confucianism and Medical Culture and a member of the Henan Association for Preserving Ancient Texts.
Xia Yun( 夏昀 ), Ph.D. and Distinguished Professor in History at Shanghai University. Doctor Xia graduated from Peking University with double majors in History and Economics, and received her MA and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Oregon. From 2010 to 2018, she successively taught at Seattle University and Valparaiso University in the Unit.ed States. She was tenured Associate Professor in History and International Studies at Valparaiso University before joining the faculty at Shanghai University.