{"product_id":"seventy-two-ways-of-saving-lives-folk-remedies-in-old-china-hardcover","title":"Seventy-Two Ways of Saving Lives: Folk Remedies in Old China - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRonald Suleski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShigehisa Kuriyama\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did lay people in old China save their lives when dealing with acute or chronic health issues? Conventional medicine was costly and might not have been an option for many. Instead, people in villages and towns relied on remedies drawn from a woodblock-printed illustrated booklet called the Seventy-Two Therapies, first published in 1847. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe goal of this book is to foster an appreciation of China's long tradition of folk remedies. Each folk remedy is illustrated by a page from the circa 1860s woodblock edition of the Seventy-Two Therapies which the author used for translation. He also added a historical and interpretive analysis to expand on each therapy and to place it in the context of contemporary thinking, aiming at academics and readers interested in the everyday lives of common people in pre-1950 China, and in the folk medicine wisdom inherited from the past.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Suleski\u003c\/b\u003e was Assistant Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is serving as Director of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies at Suffolk University Boston. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShigehisa Kuriyama\u003c\/b\u003e is Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725096980543,"sku":"9789882373211","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0b82029d78635efd0ee4ad3c414491f1.webp?v=1765105146","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/seventy-two-ways-of-saving-lives-folk-remedies-in-old-china-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}