The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary @ richardeward.com

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary
by Maoshing Ni
from Shambhala

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• Be very careful using this translation
  This translation is a paraphrase at best, and contains some disturbing contradictions to other translations of the same text, including my own spot translations to check on these. While I'm not a classical scholar, some of these are fairly obvious. Also, a lot of interpolated material is not set off in any way. It is interesting to read this translation in the context of the two other main translations now available, Lianshang Wu's (which has the Chinese text, but has a poor English text which is closer to... more info

• a solid paraphrase for the practitioner
  While this book is sometimes criticised for its lack of scholarly style, it is important to realize that the writer is approaching a 2,500 year old work, the seminal theoretical treatise of Chinese medicine, from the point of view of a clinician. It is frankly not much easier for native speakers of Chinese to approach the Neijing in its original form than it is for Westerners. Moreover, Mr Ni comes from a medical family spanning several generations of physicians. Being a practitioner myself, I can attest to... more info

• expected a more scholarly treatment
  I expected a more, I don't know, historical? scholarly? treatment of the subject of the Suwen. I claim no skill at translation of ancient Chinese characters, nor interpretation of Chinese philosophical writings (ancient or otherwise) but I had hoped for at least some original text or side-by-side comparison of the text and the translation. Maoshing Ni provides neither of these things.

  Some people may appreciate the lack of academic interruptions commonly affecting a work of this kind in the form of... more info

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