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A soup for the Qan : Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Sihui's Yinshan zhengyao : introduction, translation, commentary, and Chinese text / by Paul D. Buell and Eugene N. Anderson ; with an appendix by Charles Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Husihui.
- Series:
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 9.
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, 1570-1484 ; v. 9
- Standardized Title:
- Yin shan zheng yao. English & Chinese
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet therapy--China--Early works to 1800.
- Diet therapy.
- Nutrition--China--Early works to 1800.
- Nutrition.
- Medicine, Chinese--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Husihui. Yin shan zheng yao.
- Husihui.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (680 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd rev. and expanded ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his Yinshan Zhengyao , a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore including selections from ancient texts, and thus reveals to us the full extent of an amazing cross-cultural dietary; here recipes can be found from as far as Arabia, Iran, India and elsewhere, next to those of course from Mongolia and China. Although the medical theories are largely Chinese, they clearly show Near Eastern and Central Asian influence. This long-awaited expanded and revised edition of the much-acclaimed A Soup for the Qan sheds (yet) new light on our knowledge of west Asian influence on China during the medieval period, and on the Mongol Empire in general.
- Contents:
- pt. A. Background and analysis
- pt. B. Text and translation
- pt. C. Appendices.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-95138-6
- 9786612951381
- 90-474-4470-1
- OCLC:
- 701095616
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004180208.i-662 DOI
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