Healing with Poisons was made possible in part by a grant from the Traditional Chinese Culture and Society Book Fund, established through generous gifts from Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Thomas Ebrey.

    Additional support was provided by grants from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and the Julian Park Publication Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University at Buffalo Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

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Names: Liu, Yan (Cultural historian) author.

Title: Healing with poisons : potent medicines in medieval China / Yan Liu.

Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020052168 (print) | LCCN 2020052169 (ebook) | ISBN 9780295749006 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780295748993 (paperback) | ISBN 9780295749013 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Medicine, Chinese. | Traditional medicine.

Classification: LCC R601 .L583 2021 (print) | LCC R601 (ebook) | DDC 610.951—dc23

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