Bamboo Slip Medical Manuscripts Excavated from Tianhui Township, Sichuan
Reflections on Chapter Titles and Textual Sources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20237200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Changhua Liu (0000-0001-5669-5364, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College), Man Gu (0000-0002-1638-3099, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College), Yang Liu (0000-0003-1220-7044, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College), Qi Zhou (0009-0009-1641-6522, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College), Qiong Luo (0000-0002-0782-4462, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College), Shelley Ochs (0000-0002-4684-1556, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 38-62 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1573-420X • E-ISSN: 1573-4218 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15734218-12341526 |
| OpenAlex | W4391187761 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Since 2014 our team of scholars at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences ( CACMS ) has been transcribing and analyzing the 951 bamboo slips excavated from the Laoguanshan tomb site at Tianhui. The team includes Liu Changhua 柳长华 , Gu Man 顾漫 , Zhou Qi 周琦 , Luo Qiong 罗琼 , and Liu Yang 刘阳 . The lead author of this article, who is the former director of the Institute of Chinese Medical History and Medical Literature at CACMS , is the principal investigator. What follows is a report of our work on the six different manuscripts we identified among the tomb M3–121 bamboo slips and a preliminary analysis of their content and its formation. The texts from Tianhui were copied in the early second century BCE . They thus give us invaluable insight into how medical literature was compiled and edited during the course of the Han dynasty in the century before Liu Xiang (77–6 BCE ) and Li Zhuguo (fl. ca. 26 BCE ) compiled their bibliographic treatise on books on medicine and diagnosis in the Han imperial library
Ancient history · Archaeology · Asian studies · Bamboo · China · Composite material · Chinese history and philosophy · Engineering · History · Materials Science · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |