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