Author: Xie Zhufan;
Publisher: Foreign Language Press
ISBN-10: 7119031260; ISBN-13: 978-7119031262; 1st edition 2002; Hardcover
Size: 8.3 x 5.9 x 2 inches; 1057 pages; Language: Chinese-English
Description
This dictionary is compiled on the basis of a research project on the
standardization of English translation of Chinese medical terminology, sponsored
by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It includes 7010
entries among which, 6630 are traditional Chinese medical terms and 380 are
commonly used citations and maxims. Listed in the order of traditional Chinese
medical textbooks, it is both a precise and practical dictionary and a minitype
encyclopedical works of traditional Chinese medicine. There are four indexes at
the end of the book to facilitate consultation.
About the Author
Dr. Zhu-Fan Xie, professor of the First Clinical Medical College, and honorary
director of Institute of Integrative Medicine, Peking University, has been
engaged in clinical and experimental studies on the integration of traditional
Chinese and modern Western medicine for forty years. He was invited to give
lectures in many countries on traditional Chinese medicine and integrative
medicine, and was appointed as WHO consultant on traditional medicine with the
participation in finalizing Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature as one of the
assignments. He wrote many books in the past. His books Common Terms of
Traditional Chinese Medicine in English (1980) and Dictionary of Traditional
Chinese Medicine (1984) were well received both in China and abroad. He also won
a special award from the Ministry of Health for his excellent contributions to
the compilation of The Chinese-English Medical Dictionary (1987). Together with
his colleagues he compiled the first edition of Classified Dictionary of
Traditional Chinese Medicine (1994). In 2000, he was assigned by the State
Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine a research project on the
standardization of English translation of Chinese medical terminology, which
provides the basis for compiling the new edition of Classified Dictionary.
