[An introduction on the editions of Zhang Gao's Yi shuo (Medical Narrations)]

Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 2014 Nov;44(6):352-61.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Zhang Gao's Yi shuo (Medical Narrations) of the Southern Song Dynasty had 2 kinds of editions: domestic editions and foreign editions. The former includes 1 Song edition, 14 Ming editions, 3 Qing editions and 25 editions after the Republic of China. The latter, mainly 2 classes, the Japanese edition and Korean printing type edition. In the Ming Dynasty, the editions of Yi shuo generated 2 branches: inherited edition and supplementary edition. The inherited editions include Gu Dingfang's edition, Zhang Yaode's edition, Wu Mianxue's edition, Wu Zhongheng's edition, Wang Kentang's edition, editions from Si ku quan shu (Imperial Collection of Four), stereotype edition of the 3th year of Xuantong reign (1911) from Shanghai Civilization Bookstore, edition of the 2(nd) year of Manji of Japan etc. The supplemental editions include Zhang Zili's edition, Shen Fan's edition, Fu Feng'ao's edition, transcript of the late Ming Dynasty preserved in the Library of Peking University, and Korean printing type edition etc.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Books / history*
  • China
  • History, 16th Century
  • History, 17th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, Medieval
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional / history*