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(More customer reviews)I am shocked that anyone would buy this title over Nan-ching--The Classic of Difficult Issues (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care). I am not an expert in Classical Chinese, but Bob Flaws shows that he is not either by making several elementary mistakes. He often skips over characters and leaves them untranslated. He ignores grammar completely and only translates the major verbs and nouns. He claims to be producing a text that is not bogged down by overly scholastic terminology, but ends up producing a translation that can barely be considered a translation. His use of Wiseman's standardized terminology in a rigid ways actually makes an argument against standardized terminology-it just makes for a lousy read in general. There is nothing redeeming about this book.

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A translation of the Nan Jing, by Bob Flaws.At last, a clinically useful translation of this seminal acupuncture classic!The Nan Jing is considered one of the four foundation texts of Chinese medicine but, until now, translations of it were either too poor or too scholarly for practitioners to use.Using nigel Wiseman's translational terminology, Western readers can read the text that codified Chinese pulse examination and five-phase acupuncture using the 60 transport points on the arms and legs.

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