About the author

Zhang Anfu is an author about whom limited public information is available. Two works can currently be confirmed, spanning the fields of cultural studies and medicine. In the cultural sphere, he is the author of Grand Ambitions: Two Thousand Years of the Western Regions, a book that takes the long history of the Western Regions as its thread, tracing the region's enduring political, economic, and cultural exchanges and offering a broad historical perspective, well suited to readers interested in frontier history and Silk Road civilization. In medicine, he has also published Selected Medical Treatises of Zhou Tianhan, a work of medical-text compilation that reflects his involvement in organizing medical literature. As the author's biography, identity, and professional background are not clearly documented, further discussion of his academic career is not possible; nevertheless, the two works, quite different in subject, suggest wide-ranging interests that combine historical narrative with the compilation of medical sources.

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Publishers

Shanghai People's Publishing HouseChina Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine