Chinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican China: An Overview

Chinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican China: An Overview includes an introduction of 49 periodicals on Chinese medicine published in the late Qing and Republican periods in China. Considered one of the best sources for observing the changing nature of medical practice and education during the late Qing and Republican eras in China, this collection of periodicals provides unique insight into not only the modern transformation of Chinese medicine, but also the larger role of medicine in Chinese society.

The collection of 49 periodicals on Chinese medicine is available online, full-text searchable. For more information on the online database, please visit the Brill webpage.

Duan Yishan is Professor at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is member of the Classical Medical Chinese Division of the Chinese Medicine Association of China; executive member of the Group for Editing and Preserving Old Texts of the National Chinese Medicine Administrative Bureau; researcher and editor for the All-China University-Level Educational Materials edition of Classical Medical Chinese and also the graduate-school level teaching materials Methods of Textual Criticism for Classical Medical Chinese and the Quan Yuanqi edition of the Suwen 《素问》. He has published Duan Yishan’s Overview of Classical Medical Chinese (Shanghai Scientific and Technological Publishers, 2001) and Abstracts of Unpublished Chinese Medical Manuscripts Collected in the Shanghai Region (Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Press, 2017). Stephen Boyanton, PhD (2015, Columbia University), is an independent scholar, writer, and translator whose work focuses on Chinese medicine and literature. He currently lives in southwest China’s Sichuan province.