FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Good Formulas

Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
    Product form
      FORMAT: Hardback

      R 3,237.00 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 3,237 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 20 - 30 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 539.50 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 1,079.00 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 809.25 with
      Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first book-length study of the use of empirical evidence in Chinese medicine between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. The rise of this new approach to substantiating knowledge, which had appeared only sporadically in earlier medical literature, provides a window into transformations in the construction of textual authority in mid-imperial China. Focusing on medical genres and working extensively with notebooks (biji), Ruth Yun-Ju Chen shows that employing empirical evidence became prominent in conjunction with a publishing boom that enabled wider availability of medical texts and treatises. To convince a more socioculturally diverse readership to believe their claims and to win intertextual debates with contemporaneous authors, many Song medical authors turned to empirical methodology. Revealing a correlation between publishing cultures and changes in persuasion strategies in medical genres, Good Formulas offers new insights into the histories of medicine, knowledge production, and publishing in China. It also provides rich examples for scholars interested in the development of empirical evidence in the premodern world.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ruth Yun-Ju Chen EAN: 9780295751382 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Washington Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-07-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      China, History of medicine, Asian history

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Ruth Yun-Ju Chen is assistant research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.
      Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first book-length study of the use of empirical evidence in Chinese medicine between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. The rise of this new approach to substantiating knowledge, which had appeared only sporadically in earlier medical literature, provides a window into transformations in the construction of textual authority in mid-imperial China. Focusing on medical genres and working extensively with notebooks (biji), Ruth Yun-Ju Chen shows that employing empirical evidence became prominent in conjunction with a publishing boom that enabled wider availability of medical texts and treatises. To convince a more socioculturally diverse readership to believe their claims and to win intertextual debates with contemporaneous authors, many Song medical authors turned to empirical methodology. Revealing a correlation between publishing cultures and changes in persuasion strategies in medical genres, Good Formulas offers new insights into the histories of medicine, knowledge production, and publishing in China. It also provides rich examples for scholars interested in the development of empirical evidence in the premodern world.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ruth Yun-Ju Chen EAN: 9780295751382 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Washington Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-07-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      China, History of medicine, Asian history

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Ruth Yun-Ju Chen is assistant research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account