Nan-Ching: The Classic of Difficult Issues, translated and annotated by Paul U. Unschuld, University of California Press 1986, is the first complete Western-language translation of this first century Chinese medical classic, with twenty historical commentaries alongside Unschuld's own. Its strength is that it is a rigorous, heavily annotated critical translation from a leading historian of Chinese medicine. Its limit is that it presents a primary medical text and its historical commentary tradition, not a modern clinical assessment of the claims it makes.
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Reliability tier 1: a rigorously annotated critical translation from the University of California Press, Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care series, by a leading historian of Chinese medicine, the standard scholarly form for this primary text. NotesThe first complete Western-language translation of the Nan-ching (Classic of Difficult Issues), the first-century Chinese medical classic, with translation of twenty Chinese and Japanese commentators alongside Unschuld's own interpretation. Scope note: covers the classic's own short passage on the Yang and Yin Linking Vessels' disorders (chills and fever for the yang vessel, pain around the heart for the yin, unsettled incoherence when the linking function itself fails), the claim the atlas attributes to "the Classic of Difficulties".
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AuthorTranslated and annotated by Paul U. Unschuld
PublisherUniversity of California Press (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, vol. 18)
Publication Year1986
URLhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8501394
Source TypePrimary text in translation
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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