{"title":"Paul U. Unschuld","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul U. Unschuld's works delve into the profound texts of traditional Chinese medicine, offering illuminating insights into ancient health philosophies. Readers will find thoughtful translations and interpretations of classics such as \u003cem\u003eHuang Di Nei Jing\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNan Jing\u003c\/em\u003e, exploring foundational concepts of wellness and medical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese books bridge historical knowledge with contemporary understanding, making them essential for those interested in the cultural and intellectual depths of health \u0026amp; wellness. Unschuld's scholarship invites readers to engage with the enduring wisdom embedded in these historic writings.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"huang-di-nei-jing-su-wen-by-paul-u-unschuld-9780520266988","title":"Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, the \u003cem\u003eHuang Di Nei Jing Su Wen\u003c\/em\u003e is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as \u003cem\u003eSu Wen\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic\u003c\/em\u003e, this influential work came into being over a long period reaching from the 2nd century BCE to the 8th century CE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining the views of different schools, it relies exclusively on natural law as conceptualised in \u003cem\u003eyin\/yang\u003c\/em\u003e and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasises personal responsibility for the length and quality of one's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis two-volume edition includes excerpts from all the major commentaries on the \u003cem\u003eSu Wen\u003c\/em\u003e, and extensive annotation drawn from hundreds of monographs and articles by Chinese and Japanese authors produced over the past 1600 years and into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463235584236,"sku":"9780520266988","price":390.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520266988-huang-di-nei-jing-su-wen.jpg?v=1775029759"},{"product_id":"nan-jing-by-paul-u-unschuld-9780520292277","title":"Nan Jing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis newly revised and updated edition of Paul U. Unschuld’s original 1986 groundbreaking translation reflects the latest philological, methodological, and sinological standards of the past thirty years. The \u003ci\u003eNan Jing\u003c\/i\u003e was compiled in China during the first century C.E., marking both an apex and a conclusion to the initial development stages of Chinese medicine. Based on the doctrines of the Five Phases and yinyang, the \u003ci\u003eNan Jing\u003c\/i\u003e covers all aspects of theoretical and practical health care in an unusually systematic fashion. Most important is its innovative discussion of pulse diagnosis and needle treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition also includes selected commentaries by twenty Chinese and Japanese authors from the past seventeen centuries. The commentaries provide insights into the processes of reception and transmission of ancient Chinese concepts from the Han era to the present time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with the \u003ci\u003eHuang Di Nei Jing Su Wen\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eHuang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu\u003c\/i\u003e, this new translation of the \u003ci\u003eNan Jing\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a trilogy of writings offering scholars and practitioners today unprecedented insights into the beginnings of a two-millennium tradition of what was a revolutionary understanding of human physiology and pathology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471301296364,"sku":"9780520292277","price":209.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520292277-nan-jing.jpg?v=1775237161"},{"product_id":"huang-di-nei-jing-ling-shu-by-paul-u-unschuld-9780520292253","title":"Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLing Shu\u003c\/i\u003e, also known as the \u003ci\u003eLing Shu Jing\u003c\/i\u003e, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the \u003ci\u003eSu Wen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNan Jing\u003c\/i\u003e. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behaviour and medical treatment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of the \u003ci\u003eLing Shu\u003c\/i\u003e, an English translation of all eighty-one chapters, and notes on difficult-to-grasp passages and possible changes in the text over time. These are based on Chinese primary and secondary literature of the past two thousand years and translator Paul Unschuld’s own work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLing Shu\u003c\/i\u003e reveals itself as a completely rational work, and, in many of its statements, a surprisingly modern one. It will provide the foundation for comparisons with the nearly contemporaneous \u003ci\u003eCorpus Hippocraticum\u003c\/i\u003e of ancient Europe and today’s iterations of traditional Chinese Medicine as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596637094124,"sku":"9780520292253","price":209.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d4ad9781858ec435a48e25b2ba8d8048.jpg?v=1777940702"},{"product_id":"huang-di-nei-jing-su-wen-by-paul-u-unschuld-9780520233225","title":"Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eHuang Di nei jing su wen\u003c\/i\u003e, known familiarly as the \u003ci\u003eSu wen\u003c\/i\u003e, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine. Yet until now, there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last, Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and intellectual past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnschuld traces the history of the \u003ci\u003eSu wen\u003c\/i\u003e to its origins in the final centuries B.C.E., when numerous authors wrote short medical essays to explain the foundations of human health and illness based on the newly developed vessel theory. He examines the meaning of the title and the way the work has been received throughout Chinese medical history, both before and after the eleventh century when the text as it is known today emerged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnschuld's survey of the contents includes illuminating discussions of the yin-yang and five-agents doctrines, the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including the new technique of acupuncture. An extensive appendix offers a detailed introduction to the complicated climatological theories of \u003ci\u003eWu yun liu qi\u003c\/i\u003e (\"five periods and six qi\"), which were added to the \u003ci\u003eSu wen\u003c\/i\u003e by Wang Bing in the Tang era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an epilogue, Unschuld writes about the break with tradition and innovative style of thought represented by the \u003ci\u003eSu wen\u003c\/i\u003e. For the first time, health care took the form of \"medicine,\" in that it focused on environmental conditions, climatic agents, and behaviour as causal in the emergence of disease and on the importance of natural laws in explaining illness. Unschuld points out that much of what we surmise about the human organism is simply a projection, reflecting dominant values and social goals. 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