Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

Geographical and Administrative Designations

Hua Linfu, Paul D. Buell

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520965553
• Print ISBN:
  9780520291966
• Edition: 1

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1, 900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1, 600, 000 characters. This secondbook in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2, 158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and useof pharmaceutical substances.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary Volume Two
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• I. Introduction
• II. Geographical and Administrative Designations
• III. Appendices