Chasing the Vermilion Bird: Late Medieval Alchemical Transformations in The Treasure Book of Ilkhan on Chinese Science and Techniques

In: Imagining Chinese Medicine
Authors:
Vivienne Lo 羅維前
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Wang Yidan 王一丹
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Pages:
291–304
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004366183_022
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Series:  Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Volume: 18
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E-Book ISBN:
9789004366183
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2018
Preliminary Material
Introduction
Chinese Medical Illustration: Chronologies and Categories
Picturing the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts from the Song to the Qing Period (10th to 19th Centuries)
Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese Medical Illustration
The Iconography of Time: What the Visualisation of Efficacious Movement (Shi 勢) Tells Us about the Composition of the Yijin Jing 易筋經 (Canon for Supple Sinews)
Nurturing the Foetus in Medieval China: Illustrating the 10 Months of Pregnancy in the Ishimpō 醫心方
The Gendered Medical Iconography of the Golden Mirror, Yuzuan Yizong Jinjian 御纂醫宗金鑑, 1742
The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目
Observational Drawing and Fine Art in Chinese Materia Medica Illustration
Reading Visual Imagery and Written Sources on Acupuncture and Moxibustion
The Fine Art of the Tongue
Diagnostic Images of the Tongue: Aetiology and Pathology Made Visible
A Brief Introduction to Illustration in the Literature of Surgery and Traumatology in Chinese Medicine
Polychrome Illustrations in the Ming Bencao Literature
Illustrations of Drug Collection and Preparation in Buyi Lei Gong Paozhi Bianlan 補遺雷公炮製便覽
The Relationship between Chinese Erotic Art and the Art of the Bedchamber: A Preliminary Survey
The Vital Role of Illustration in the Literature of Childhood Smallpox
Picturing Medicine in Daily life: Court and Commoner Perspectives in Song Era Paintings
Images of Healing, Hygiene and the Cultivation of the Body in the Dunhuang Cave Murals
Travelling Light: Sino-Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang
Chasing the Vermilion Bird: Late-Medieval Alchemical Transformations in The Treasure Book of Ilkhan on Chinese Science and Techniques
Fanciful Images from Abroad: Picturing the Other in Bencao pinhui jingyao 本草品彙精要
Chinese Horse Medicine: Texts and Illustrations
Korean Anatomical Charts in the Context of the East Asian Medical Tradition
Imagining Acupuncture: Images and the Early Westernisation of Asian Medical Expertise
The Body of Laozi and the Course of a Taoist Journey Through the Heavens
Clinical Medicine Texts: The Earliest Stone Medical Inscription
Embodying Animal Spirits in the Vital Organs: Daoist Alchemy in Chinese Medicine
A Phoenix Amid the Flames: Mount Emei Big Dipper Finger-Point Method, Daoyin and Qigong
Moving towards Perfection: Physical Culture in Dzogchen as Revealed in Tibet’s Lukhang Murals
A Tibetan Image of Divination: Some Contextual Remarks
Places and Traces: Selections from Professor Ma Kanwen’s 馬堪溫 Ethnography of 1955
Visualisation in Parasitological Research: Patrick Manson and his Chinese Assistants
Marketing Medicine to Koreans
The Visual Language of Medicine Advertisements in The Ladies’ Journal
Beauty and Health: Images of Health and Illness from 20th-Century China
Sketching the Dao: Chinese Medicine in Modern Cartoons
Periodisation of Chinese History – Principal Dynasties
Author Biographies
Index

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