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Imagining Chinese Medicine Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series Imagining Chinese Medicine Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series Edited by Dominik Wujastyk Paul U. Unschuld Charles Burnett Editorial Board Donald J. Harper Ch. Z. Minkowski Guy Attewell Nikolaj Serikoff VOLUME 18 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/was Imagining Chinese Medicine Edited by Vivienne Lo 羅維前 Penelope Barrett with the help of David Dear Lu Di 蘆笛 Lois Reynolds Dolly Yang 楊德秀 LEIDEN | BOSTON This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. front cover: Li Jiong’s Neijing tu 内景圖 (Chart of the Inner Landscape). Huangdi bashiyi nanjing zuan tu jujie in Zhengtong Daozang 1436–49, Hanfen Lou, Shanghai. (The Ming edition of the Canon). Wellcome Library, London, L0034715. back cover: Heche niliu tu (Illustration of the Water Wheel against the current) from Che sheng ba bian neijing (The Penetrating Mirror of the Interior in Eight Books), by Liu Sijing, Qing, Kangxi reign period (1662–1722), illustrating the flow and circulation of Genuine Qi. China Academy of Chinese Medicial Sciences, copyright Wellcome Images L0038694. The realization of this publication was made possible by the support of the Wellcome Trust (Seed Award, grant number 201616/Z/16/Z). Chapters not originally written in English were translated by Penelope Barrett and Vivienne Lo. Design, layout and copy-editing: Josephine Turquet. Additional typography: Akio Morishima. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2017964171 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. 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In cases where these efforts have not been successful the publisher welcomes communications from copyright holders, so that the appropriate acknowledgements can be made in future editions, and to settle other permission matters. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents List of Plates viii List of Tables xviii Dedication and Acknowledgements xix Vivienne Lo 羅維前 Introduction 1 Vivienne Lo 羅維前 1 A Survey of Images from the Chinese Medical Classics 29 Wang Shumin 王淑民 and Gabriel Fuentes Part 1: Mapping the Body: Space, Time and Gender 2 Picturing the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts from the Song to the 53 Qing Period (10th to 19th Centuries) Catherine Despeux 3 Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese Medical Illustration 69 Vivienne Lo 羅維前 4 The Iconography of Time: What the Visualisation of Efficacious Movement (Shi 勢) 89 Tells Us about the Composition of the Yijin Jing 易筋經 (Canon for Supple Sinews) Elisabeth Hsu 5 Nurturing the Foetus in Medieval China: Illustrating the 10 Months of Pregnancy 101 in the Ishimpō 醫心方 Sabine Wilms 6 The Gendered Medical Iconography of the Golden Mirror, Yuzuan Yizong Jinjian 111 御纂醫宗金鑑, 1742 Yi-Li Wu 吳一立 Part 2: Effective Representation 7 The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to 135 Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目 Roel Sterckx 8 Observational Drawing and Fine Art in Chinese Materia Medica Illustration 151 Zheng Jinsheng 鄭金生 9 Reading Visual Imagery and Written Sources on Acupuncture and Moxibustion 161 Huang Longxiang 黃龍祥 10 The Fine Art of the Tongue 167 Nancy Holroyde-Downing vi contents 11 Diagnostic Images of the Tongue: Aetiology and Pathology Made Visible 177 Liang Rong 梁嶸 12 A Brief Introduction to Illustration in the Literature of Surgery and Traumatology 183 in Chinese Medicine Hu Xiaofeng 胡曉峰 Part 3 Imagining Medical Practice 13 Polychrome Illustrations in the Ming Bencao Literature 197 Cao Hui 曹暉 14 Illustrations of Drug Collection and Preparation in Buyi Lei Gong Paozhi Bianlan 209 補遺雷公炮製便覽 Xiao Yongzhi 肖永芝 15 The Relationship between Chinese Erotic Art and the Art of the Bedchamber: 215 A Preliminary Survey Sumiyo Umekawa 梅川純代 and David Dear 16 The Vital Role of Illustration in the Literature of Childhood Smallpox 227 Wan Fang 萬芳 17 Picturing Medicine in Daily life: Court and Commoner Perspectives 233 in Song Era Paintings TJ Hinrichs Part 4 Imagining Travelling Medicine 18 Images of Healing, Hygiene and the Cultivation of the Body in the Dunhuang 251 Cave Murals Wang Jinyu 王進玉, translated with Lu Di 蘆笛 19 Travelling Light: Sino-Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang 271 Vivienne Lo 羅維前 and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim 20 Chasing the Vermilion Bird: Late Medieval Alchemical Transformations in 291 The Treasure Book of Ilkhan on Chinese Science and Techniques Vivienne Lo 羅維前 and Wang Yidan 王一丹 21 Fanciful Images from Abroad: Picturing the Other in Bencao Pinhui Jingyao 305 本草品彙精要 Chen Ming 陳明 22 Chinese Horse Medicine: Texts and Illustrations 315 Paul D. Buell, Timothy May and David Ramey 23 Korean Anatomical Charts in the Context of the East Asian Medical Tradition 327 Shin Dongwon 신동원, translated by Kim Yuseok 김유석 contents vii 24 Imagining Acupuncture: Images and the Early Westernisation of Asian Medical Expertise 339 Roberta Bivins Part 5 Esoteric Contexts and Knowledge Transmission 25 The Body of Laozi and the Course of a Taoist Journey Through the Heavens 351 Patrice Fava 26 Clinical Medicine Texts: The Earliest Stone Medical Inscription 373 Zhang Ruixian 張瑞賢,Wang Jiakui 王家葵 and Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源 27 Embodying Animal Spirits in the Vital Organs: Daoist Alchemy in Chinese Medicine 389 Zhang Qicheng 張其成, translated and edited by Wang Jing 王晶 and David Dear 28 A Phoenix Amid the Flames: Mount Emei Big Dipper Finger-Point Method, 397 Daoyin and Qigong Liao Yuqun 廖育群 29 Moving towards Perfection: Physical Culture in Dzogchen as Revealed in Tibet’s 403 Lukhang Murals Ian A. Baker 30 A Tibetan Image of Divination: Some Contextual Remarks 429 Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Part 6 Imagining Modern Medicine 31 Places and Traces: Selections from Professor Ma Kanwen’s 馬堪溫 Ethnography of 1955 443 Abridged by Penelope Barrett with an Introduction by Vivienne Lo 32 Visualisation in Parasitological Research: Patrick Manson and his Chinese Assistants 457 Shang-Jen Li 李尚仁 33 Marketing Medicine to Koreans 467 Soyoung Suh 서소영 34 The Visual Language of Medicine Advertisements in The Ladies’ Journal 479 Chang Che-chia 張哲嘉 35 Beauty and Health: Images of Health and Illness from 20th-Century China 487 Zhou Xun 周遜 36 Sketching the Dao: Chinese Medicine in Modern Cartoons 497 Judith Farquhar and Lai Lili 賴立里 Periodisation of Chinese History – Principal Dynasties 509 Author Biographies 510 Index 515 List of Plates 0.1 The earliest extant Taiji tu, Rashīd-al-Dīn, 1313. 3 0.2 Illustration of ‘Technique for cultivating Original Spirit’ (yuan shen), 1875. 4 0.3 Yuanmen maijue neizhao tu (Internal Visualisation Charts from the ‘Primordial Portal’ Secrets of the Pulse), attr. Hua Tuo (3rd century CE). Qing woodcut. 6 0.4 The earliest extant diagram of the vulva. Mawangdui Tomb 3, closed 168 BCE. 8 0.5 ‘Looms of Life’ conference poster, UCL, March 2017. Design by Akio Morishima. 9 0.6 Neijing tu (Chart of the Inner Landscape), 19th century. 14 1.1 Daoyin tu (Guiding and Pulling Chart). Mawangdui Tomb 3, closed 168 BCE. 29 1.2 Diamond Sūtra, 868. 30 1.3 Illuminated Hall chart showing the loci of the head and shoulders from Dunhuang, ms. P.2675. 31 1.4 a and b. Making sea salt, Jingshi zhenglei beiji bencao, ed. Liu Jia, 1185. 32 1.5 a and b. Salt from Shanxi Province. 32 1.6 ‘Diet therapy for all diseases’,Yinshan zhengyao (Principles of Correct Diet), 1330. 35 1.7 Illustration of well water, Lu He, Shiwu bencao (Materia Dietetica), 1571. 37 1.8 Drug processing with Lei Gong at the centre, Buyi Lei Gong paozhi bianlan (Lei Gong’s Guide to Drug Prepara- tion with Addenda), 1591. 37 1.9 Nanzi wulao qishang (Five Wearinesses and Seven Damages in Men) from Dunhuang, ms. Or.8210/S.6168. 41 1.10 Standing Bronze Man, anterior view, Gao Wu, 1519. 44 1.11 Lingmen chuanshou tongren zhixue (Finger Point Bronze Man of the Lingmen Transmission), early Qing copy. 46 1.12 Rear view of the Viscera, Man-ampō (Remedies for Absolute Peace of Mind), 1331. 47 1.13 Illustrations of the Lungs, Yifang leiju (Collection of Classified Medical Remedies), 1445. 48 1.14 Gudai yijia huaxiang (Portraits of Ancient Doctors), 1816. 48 2.1 Gymnastic pose, from Shouyang congshu (Collected Texts on Self-Cultivation and Longevity) by Hu Wenhuan, late 17th century. 54 2.2 Moxibustion points, from Jiu jing (Moxibustion Classic), anon., Song period. 54 2.3 Jing fahui (Exposition of the 14 Channels) by Hua Shou (13th century). 55 2.4 Composite chart of the channels and tracts, Zhenjiu dacheng (Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibus- tion) by Yang Jizhou, 1601. 55 2.5 Model representation of the body used in forensic medicine, Yuandian zhang (Compendium of Statutes and Sub-Statutes of the Yuan Dynasty), 1322.
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