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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'Explorations in Daoism' provides a clear guide for students and scholars about the methods required for dating and reconstructing texts using techniques that can be applied to other areas of traditional Chinese culture also. Zusammenfassung The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts, however many of these texts are undated and anonymous. This book brings together an extraordinary compendium of data on alchemical knowledge in China, describing the methods used for dating important alchemical texts in the Daoist canon. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Appendix1: Beyond the Daoist Canon: Proto-chemistry in the pharmacopoeia Appendix2: Extracts from al-Biruni's pharmacopoeia with added Commentaries Bibliography
