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Article: Donald Harper. Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts.(Review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2000
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Donald Harper. Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts. London: Kegan Paul International; New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 549 pp. Hardcover $127.50, ISBN 0-7103-0582-6.
Archaeological finds over the past three decades have cast new light on many aspects of Warring States intellectual history, and medicine has been no exception. The Mawangdui medical corpus consists of seven medical manuscripts written on three sheets of silk, recovered from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in 1973, a burial dating from 168 B.C.E. They were originally published in volume 4 of Mawangdui hanmu boshu [CHINESE CHARACTERS NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (The Han ...