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Non-fiction Books Nigel Wiseman and Zhang Yuhuan, Chinese Medical Characters: Volume One: Basic Vocabulary Paradigm, 2003: I require this book in the very beginning of any classes I teach on classical medical Chinese. The book is self-explanatory and directed towards self-learning. The students really like it because it doesn't overwhelm you with hundreds of characters right away and gives the etymology, stroke order, and some important compounds. A great starting point.
Ted Kaptchuk, The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine McGraw-Hill, 2000. This book has become a classic by now and is probably read by any student of Chinese medicine at some point in their career. Harriet Beinfield, Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine Ballantine 1992. I have not read this book myself but several of my clinical colleagues recommended it in the course of a discussion on appropriate introductory texts on Chinese medicine. Getting a bunch of practitioners to agree on what constitutes a proper description of our medicine is impossible, so I am including it for completeness' sake, as I respect the opinion of my colleagues. Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallet, The Rhythm At The Heart Of The World: Neijing suwen chapter 5 Published by Monkey Press. Any of Elisabeth Rochat's small books of translations and explanations produced by Monkey Press are highly recommended.
Visit the website of Monkey Press to check them out. Leon Hammer, The Patient-Practitioner Relationship in Acupunture Thieme International, 2008. I absolutely love this little book. Also, his other big book, Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology and Chinese Medicine, Eastland Press, 2005.
Not a casual book to read but a real gem that has inspired many of my students. Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature Bear and Company, 2004. Not so obviously and directly related to Chinese medicine per se, but I love Stephen Buhner's writings.
This book, and his many others. TJ Hinrichs and Linda Barnes, eds., Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History Belknap, 2013. This fairly recent book is a fantastic collection of essays, interspersed with short excerpts, on the history of Chinese medicine and healing. The long list of contributors, which includes so many of my favorite people in the world, is a powerful manifestation of how far this field of research has come in the past few decades. A labor of love and an absolute must for anybody interested in the roots of Chinese medicine. Fiction Books Note: The following list is the outcome of a casual discussion with colleagues and just a meager start.
I am sure it will grow substantially over time. Please send me your personal favorites. Marjorie Pivar and Quang Van Nguyen, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.
I haven't read this myself but it came highly recommended. Buck, The Good Earth Washington Square Press, 2004. An old classic, this book was written in 1929 (and first published in 1931) by the daughter of American missionaries in China. It recounts the fictional rise and fall of a rural family in early twentieth-century, pre-revolutionary China and has been credited with inspiring pro-Chinese, and therefore anti-Japanese sentiment in the US before World War II. It is still a captivating read. Robert van Gulik, Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee Or any other of van Gulik's Judge Dee detective stories, published by the University of Chicago Press. I used to assign these in my Chinese Civilization courses, to get reticent undergraduate students more interested in China.
George Crane, Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia Bantam, 2001. I haven't read this book yet but it was also highly recommended.
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Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem Translated by Howard Goldblatt and published in English in 2008, the original was first published in Chinese in 2004. According to Wikipedia, it is a semi-autobiographical account of a young student sent to the Mongolian countryside at the height of the Cultural Revolution. After creating quite a stir in China, it is now being turned into a movie. Online resources A website that describes itself as follows: 'Classical Chinese Medicine reflects the voices of an international movement seeking to honour and restore the classical origins of Chinese medicine. This site features articles, lectures, and practical demonstrations by Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac., Founding Professor of the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and a group of like-minded scholars in China and the West who are committed to transmit the time-honoured science of Eastern medicine as a highly sophisticated and deeply spiritual art form.'
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