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草Chinese Medicine
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Chinese medicine: language, history and everyday culture

A JOURNAL OF CHINESE MEDICINE CULTURELanguage · Tradition · Everyday life
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CONCEPTS & LANGUAGE · ARTICLE

Small words.
Whole worlds.

Meet qi, and the ideas behind the word.

Explore the story
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Food & everyday culture

More than a bowl of congee

Food, family and everyday ritual.

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Concepts & language

Yin & yang, in everyday life

A relationship, not a fixed label.

A THREE-STEP READING PATH

Find your bearings.

01Start hereSee the map of language, history and everyday culture.Read article02Meet qi · 气Understand one central word and its translations.Read article03Read with perspectiveSeparate traditional accounts from evidence claims.Read article
FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY

Four ways in.

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