Novel Medicine Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to pr...

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Main Author: Schonebaum, Andrew (auth)
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Language:English
Published: University of Washington Press 2016
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