List of tables, boxes and maps .............................. ix
Preface ...................................................... x
Note on transcriptions in pinyin ........................... xiv
Abbreviations ............................................... xv
Part I Framing the field ....................................... 1
1 Introduction ................................................. 3
2 The questions ............................................... 10
3 Diagnosis and medicine in the Warring States and the early
Han ......................................................... 22
4 Conceptions of the body in the Warring States and the
early Han ................................................... 29
5 Discussion .................................................. 45
Part II The Memoir of Chunyu Yi in Shiji 105 ................... 47
6 Outline of the Memoir (Canggong zhuan) ...................... 49
7 Translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi ...................... 71
8 Commentators and commentaries to the Memoir ................. 95
9 Map of Chunyu Yi's itineraries .............................. 97
Part III Translation and interpretation of the medical case
histories 1-10 in the Memoir of Chunyu Yi ..................... 101
10 Text structure semantics ................................... 109
11 Case 1: coagulated blood in the liver ...................... 120
12 Case 2: qi trapped in the chest ............................ 148
13 Case 3: cold waters congealing into a mass ................. 167
14 Case 4: hot waters dispersing as sweat pearls .............. 185
15 Case 5: the queen dowager's overexposure to yang ........... 203
16 Case 6: a body form in dissolution, delirium and death ..... 232
17 Case 7: a lethal constipation .............................. 267
18 Case 8: a deadly diarrhoea ................................. 294
19 Case 9: the King of Jibei's overabsorption of yin .......... 302
20 Case 10: two cases in one? Qi went into the abdomen ........ 327
21 Discussion of the medical case histories 1-10 .............. 342
References ................................................. 370
Index ...................................................... 392
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