Journal article
The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine
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Two terms for wind prevail in Chinese medical texts and practice: qi and feng. Shigehisa Kuriyama noted that qi usually referred to regular and feng to unruly winds. This is not contested in this paper, but it considers these connotations of wind a characteristic of qi and feng in late imperial China in particular, and calls for an account that is more sensitive to historical change. Based on a study of twenty-five medical case histories in the 105th chapter of the Records of the Historian (S...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- s1
- Pages:
- S117-S134
- Publication date:
- 2007-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-9655
- ISSN:
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1359-0987
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:2358
- Deposit date:
- 2008-09-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Royal Anthropological Institute
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- N.B. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA. Citation: Hsu, E. (2007). 'The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), 13 (s1), S117-S134. [Available online at Wiley Interscience, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118515165/issue].
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