A Flourishing Yin

A Flourishing Yin
Author: Charlotte Furth
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1999-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520918870

This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke, or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using medical classics, popular handbooks, case histories, and belles lettres, it explores evolving understandings of fertility and menstruation, gestation and childbirth, sexuality, and gynecological disorders. Furth locates medical practice in the home, where knowledge was not the monopoly of the learned physician and male doctors had to negotiate the class and gender boundaries of everyday life. Women as healers and as patients both participated in the dominant medical culture and sheltered a female sphere of expertise centered on, but not limited to, gestation and birth. Ultimately, her analysis of the relationship of language, text, and practice reaches beyond her immediate subject to address theoretical problems that arise when we look at the epistemological foundations of our knowledge of the body and its history.

A Flourishing Yin

A Flourishing Yin
Author: Charlotte Furth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 355
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780520208285

"Highly original, and sophisticatedly and convincingly argued. This book is one of the best studies in any language of how Chinese medicine evolved intellectually and socially in the course of the imperial period."--Francesca Bray, author of "Technology and Gender"

Copperplate Script

Copperplate Script
Author: Paul Antonio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990606550

Copperplate Script - A Yin & Yang Approach by Paul Antonio, is an innovative, new technology applied to an historical script. The script presented in this manual is not an historical hand, but a geometric construct to aid in a more exacting understanding of the script. This construct assists with writing a cleaner and more beautiful copperplate script.The Technology reintroduces a comprehensive terminology for the parts of the letters - words used by the English Writing Masters in their Copybooks, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, as well as additional names augmented from the historical record. Geometry and physics are used to explain how a curve works and where it sits in relation to the baseline. This concept, then compares how a car or a bicycle tackles a roundabout.Learning the skeletal forms, similar to learning Roman Capitals, is a key part of the manual. The process begins with using a pencil first, followed by the nib.The over-arching concept of the technology utilises 4Fold Symmetry. There are four facets in the 4Fold Symmetry, all of which have 2 aspects; simple and complex. Angular Confinement is the first facet. It shows how confining the curves, inside a plane sided figure (in this case a parallelogram), is like drawing a square to plot a circle.Additional pages of study include an extensive list of difficult-to-write practise words, exemplars of numbers and variations, ligatures of double letters and ampersands. Sections on Brush Copperplate, Flourishing and its rules, as well as a glossary, augment this fine body of work.This manual offers an extensive, in-depth study of Copperplate Script suitable for any level of ability and an extraordinary resource for the beginner, intermediate or advanced calligrapher.

Teachers of the Inner Chambers

Teachers of the Inner Chambers
Author: Dorothy Ko
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804723596

This pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in 17th-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in 17th-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional and intellectual worlds of 17th-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.

Chinese Astrology

Chinese Astrology
Author: Shelly Wu
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1564147967

Draws on the archetypes of the 12 signs of the ancient Eastern zodiac to offer insight into astrologically influenced personalities, providing coverage of such related topics as how a birth element shapes one's destiny, Chinese love signs and the qualities of one's Chinese birth-hour "companion."

Cinderella's Sisters

Cinderella's Sisters
Author: Dorothy Ko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520253906

Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.

Demystifying the Chinese Economy

Demystifying the Chinese Economy
Author: Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521191807

An insightful account of the remarkable transition of the Chinese economy from impoverished backwater to economic powerhouse.

Opening to China

Opening to China
Author: Charlotte Furth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781604979848

Becoming a historian of China in Cold War America -- Arrival : the Friendship Hotel -- Fulbrighters get oriented -- Students and teachers -- Student stories -- American studies -- The visiting professor -- Spring fever -- Departures -- Epilogue

Classical Chinese Medicine

Classical Chinese Medicine
Author: Liu Lihong
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2019-04-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9882370578

The English edition of Liu Lihong’s milestone work is a sublime beacon for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated “integration” of traditional Chinese wisdom with Western science during the last sixty years, and represents an ardent appeal for the recognition of Chinese medicine as a science in its own right. Professor Liu’s candid presentation has made this book a bestseller in China, treasured not only by medical students and doctors, but by vast numbers of non-professionals who long for a state of health and well-being that is founded in a deeper sense of cultural identity. Oriental medicine education has made great strides in the West since the 1970s, but clear guidelines regarding the “traditional” nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) remain undefined. Classical Chinese Medicine not only delineates the educational and clinical problems faced by the profession in both East and West, but transmits concrete and inspiring guidance on how to effectively engage with ancient texts and designs in the postmodern age. Using the example of the Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage), one of the most important Chinese medicine classics, Liu Lihong develops a compelling roadmap for holistic medical thinking that links the human body to nature and the universe at large.