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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schonebaum, Andrew, 1975–
Title: Novel medicine : healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China / Andrew Schonebaum.
Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038296 | ISBN 9780295995182 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese fiction—Ming dynasty, 1368–1644—History and criticism. | Chinese fiction—Qing dynasty, 1644–1912—History and criticism. | Healing in literature | Medicine in literature. | Diseases in literature. | Medical literature—China—History. | Literature and society—China—History. | Books and reading—Social aspects—China—History. | Popular culture—China—History. | Knowledge, Sociology of—History.
Classification: LCC PL2436 .S35 2016 | DDC 895.13/409—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015038296
The paper used in this publication is acid-free and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984.