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