Chinese Herbal Legends: 50 Stories for Understanding Chinese
By Zhu Zhong-bao
Date Oct 2006
Language English
Format 130 mm x 215 mm, 247pages
ISBN 7-117-07951-7/R·7952
Price $ 24.90
Publisher People’s Medical Publishing House
Abstract
Unlike most other English versions, Chinese Herbal Legends not only introduces basic knowledge, but also presents vivid Chinese folk stories of about one hundred Chinese medicinal herbs. This unique book will benefit medical theorists, teachers and students by providing clinical and scientific information on the herbs such as the channel it enters, and their medicinal actions and indications, while keeping the Chinese folk stories and myths of the herbs.
Author
Zhu Zhong-bao is professor and former dean of foreign languages department at Henan College of TCM, vice-director of China Translation Society of TCM, and Committee Member of Committee for Approval of English Translation for the Chinese Medicine Societies. He has been engaged in teaching English at the graduate and doctoral level and in the research of TCM translation for over 20 years. He has compiled, translated, and proofed more than 30 textbooks and atlases as well as more than 30 journal articles. His books have been well-received both in China and abroad, and some have won awards.
