The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine

Two terms for wind prevail in Chinese medical texts and practice: qi and feng. Shigehisa Kuriyama noted that qi usually referred to regular and feng to unruly winds. This is not contested in this paper, but it considers these connotations of wind a characteristic of qi and feng in late imperial Chin...

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Main Author: Hsu, E
Other Authors: Royal Anthropological Institute
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing 2007
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