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
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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
（The Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series）
Routledge, 2016, c2000
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飮膳正要
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"First issued in paperback 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-664) and index
English and Chinese text with introduction and commentary in English
飲膳正要 / [(元)忽思慧撰]
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Description
First published in 2000. 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.
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PART A: BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION 1. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT I. Yin-shan Cheng-yao: Text and Author II. The Rise of Mongolian Empire III. Mongols as Cultural Intermediaries IV. The Successor States V. Cultural Spheres of The Mongolian World Order 2. ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT PART B: TEXT AND TRANSLATION, PREFACES, CHUAN 1, CHUAN 2, CHUAN 3, PART C: APPENDICES
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