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Know Your Remedies

Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

He Bian

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English
Princeton University Press
17 May 2022
A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China

Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China's early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy-as a commercial enterprise

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Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9780691200132
ISBN 10:   0691200130
Pages:   264
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

He Bian is assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University.

Reviews for Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

"""Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies"" ""An entirely novel approach to a known topic. . . . Read this book with interest and pleasure to begin to appreciate the development of a complex nation over two thousand years of conquering, and being conquered by, people of diverse faiths and national structures.""---Tony Dayan, British Society for the History of Medicine ""He Bian ingeniously uses conventional historical sources to uncover the hidden story of nonelite knowing of material remedies.""---Xiaomeng Liu, Exchange"


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