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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811440303321

Autore

Husihui

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-95138-6

9786612951381

90-474-4470-1

Edizione

[2nd rev. and expanded ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (680 p.)

Collana

Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, , 1570-1484 ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

BuellPaul D

AndersonEugene Newton, Jr.,  <1941->

PerryCharles <1941->

Disciplina

615.8/54

Soggetti

Diet therapy - China

Nutrition - China

Medicine, Chinese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. A. Background and analysis -- pt. B. Text and translation -- pt. C. Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

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.