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    MEDICINE FOR WOMEN

    IN IMPERIAL CHINA

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    MEDICINE FOR WOMEN

    IN IMPERIAL CHINA

    EDITED BY

    ANGELA KI CHE LEUNG

    BRILL

    LEIDEN .BOSTON

    2006

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    ISBN 90 04 15196 6

    Brill

    Leiden · Boston

    ? Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands

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    ISSN 0022-4995

    The content of this volume is a reprint

    of volume 7, issue 2 (2005) of

    Nan Nü, Men, Women

    and Gender in China.

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    CONTENTS

    Harriet T. Zurndorfer, “Foreword” .......................................... 1

    Angela Ki Che Leung, “Recent Trends in the Study of

    Medicine for Women in Imperial China” .......................... 2

    Robin D.S. Yates, “Medicine for Women in Early China:

    A Preliminary Survey” .......................................................... 19

    Sabine Wilms, “‘Ten Times More Difficult to Treat’: Female

    Bodies in Medical Texts from Early Imperial China” ...... 74

    Jen-der Lee, “Childbirth in Early Imperial China” ................. 108

    Review Article

    Marta E. Hanson, “Depleted Men, Emotional Women: Gender

    and Medicine in the Ming Dynasty” .................................. 179

    Book Review

    Zhang Zhibin, Gudai Zhongyi fuchanke jibingshi (Ricardo King-sang

    Mak) ........................................................................................ 197

    Charlotte Furth, “Bibliography of Secondary Sources on

    Medicine and Gender: Early Imperial China” .................. 201

    Index ............................................................................................. 209

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    FOREWORD

    This issue of NAN Nü, focused on medicine for women in impe-

    rial China, is the third special theme number to appear since the

    journal’s founding seven years ago. Like the earlier theme issues, one

    on female suicide (3.1 [2001]) and the other on gender and genre

    in late Qing China (6.1 [2004]), this number will be published as a

    separate book volume. But unlike these two previous numbers, this

    issue did not originate from an earlier academic meeting or panel

    presentation. For the last several years, Angela Leung, the special

    guest editor of this issue, and I had been discussing the possibility of

    organizing a NAN Nü issue which would highlight some of the more

    recent trends in the study of Chinese medicine for women. With the

    publication of the path-breaking book by Charlotte Furth, A Flour-

    ishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History, 960-1665 (Berkeley: Uni-

    versity of California Press, 1999), this particular specialization within

    the discipline of the history of Chinese medicine is now attracting ......