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Sūn Sīmiǎo's BEi JI Qiān Jīn YAo Fāng (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold for Every Emergency) Volume 5: Pediatrics, Part 1. "Venerating the Root" fills a great part of this significant gap in our education: it presents a comprehensive overview of neonatal and pediatric classical physiology, neonatal care including cord care, grooming and breastfeeding, and diseases that are proper to children.

This book is a literal translation of the second half of Volume 5 from the Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang 備急千金要方 on pediatrics, composed by Sun Simiao 孫思邈 in the seventh century. It includes the following features:

• 26 pages of introductory matter and 544 pages of main text.
• A critical edition of the Chinese text with the literal English translation on opposing pages.
• Five main sections on "Cold Damage," "Cough," "Aggregations, Binds, Distention, and Fullness," "Welling Abscesses, Flat...

Sūn Sīmiǎo's Bèi Jí Qiān Jīn Yào Fāng (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold for Every Emergency) Volume 5: Pediatrics, Part 1. "Venerating the Root" fills a great part of this significant gap in our education: it presents a comprehensive overview of neonatal and pediatric classical physiology, neonatal care including cord care, grooming and breastfeeding, and diseases that are proper to children.

This collection of short stories, anecdotes, and poems was likely compiled during the 13th century. Tales of romantic love--including courtship, marriage, and illicit affairs--unify the collection and make it an essential primary source for literary and social history, since official Chinese history sources did not usually discuss family conflict or sexual matters.

This volume, the first complete translation of The Drunken Man's Talk (Xinbian zuiweng tanlu) in any language, includes an introduction that explores the literary significance of the work as well as annotations...

Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng's three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and...