1st Edition
Explorations in Daoism Medicine and Alchemy in Literature
Author's Preface Preface by T. H. Barrett 1. Introduction 2. On the dating of alchemical texts 3. Danfang jianyuan and Danfang jingyuan 4. Partial restoration, collation and translation of lost alchemical texts 5. General discussions Appendix 1: Beyond the Daoist Canon: Proto-chemistry in the pharmacopoeia Appendix 2: Extracts from al-Biruni's pharmacopoeia with added Commentaries Bibliography
Biography
Ho Peng Yoke has published widely on Chinese alchemy, astronomy, divination and mathematics. He occupied senior academic positions in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Hong Kong before becoming the Director of the Needham Research Institute in 1990. On his retirement at the end of 2001 he became its Emeritus Director. He is an academician of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Academia Sinica and the International Euro-Asia Academy of Science.
"Ho's mastery of the history of science in China is awe inspiring...this is an extremely well-edited volume, with in-text Chinese characters, chemical formulas, and extensive cross-referencing. It will be an essential reference for scholars of the history of Daoism, alchemy, and Chinese science." - Bridie Andrews Minehan, ISIS, 100:1 (2009)
