Overview
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, this title is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works.
- | Author: Hua Linfu, Paul U. Unschuld, Paul D. Buell
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 22, 2016
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9780520291966
- | ISBN-10: 0520291964
