About the author

Wang Hong is an author about whom limited public information is available; details such as birthplace, dates of birth and death, and professional career are not clearly recorded. Judging from the works held in the collection, Wang Hong's writing centers on traditional medicine, especially diagnostic inspection (wangzhen), with the representative work Wangzhen Zun Jing (Compendium of Diagnostic Inspection). This book discusses the diagnostic method of inspection in Chinese medicine, considering how external signs such as complexion and physical form can be used to infer illness, and is a specialized work on Chinese medical diagnostics. The collection also includes another work by the author on the same subject, suggesting a sustained focus in this area. The works are classified under medicine and health, and medicine, with some entries also touching on topics related to gender and sexuality; they are intended mainly for readers interested in Chinese medical diagnosis and everyday health knowledge. Overall, Wang Hong concentrates on organizing and explaining inspection practice, with writing that emphasizes practical guidance and medical reasoning, offering some reference value for the dissemination and transmission of knowledge about diagnostic inspection in Chinese medicine.

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Publishers

China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine