Teach Yourself to Read Modern Medical Chinese: A Step-by-Step Workbook & Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0936185996 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is the 1st workbook ever written specifically to help acupuncturists and practitioners of Chiense medicine to directly access the Chinese medical literature in Chinese. Conversational and easy to follow, the author shares all the "quick & dirty" methods he's used to teach himself. The book is wire-bound for ease of use.. You can begin translating modern medical Chinese within hourse! You wil learn: how to look up a Chinese character in a dictionary; how to interpret characters once you've found them; how to use quick "cheat-sheets" for identifying acupuncture point names, medicinals, formulas, and commonly used medi
Among his other credits, Bob is a past president and lifetime fellow of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, a fellow and board member of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a founder of the Council of Oriental Medical Publishers, and founder of Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
This book is a great textbook for teaching medical Chinese in our Oriental medical schools. This book makes learning modern medical Chinese possible and enjoyable. Most of all it fills a niche that has been a void in our learning. Bob gives us a step-by-step guide to conquering what was thought to be insurmountable. In this book, Bob Flaws not only assaults all of our excuses for avoiding studying medical Chinese, but argues a good case for learning it. -- Leah Martino, California Journal of Oriental Medicine. This time, he has given the profession not just a useful clinical book, but a true gift: the tools to extract clinical information from the source. It is filled with enough information to last a lifetime, is well written, methodically organized, and aesthetically beautiful
"An important topic for the serious TCM studentbut" according to A Customer. I have been looking for a good review of Chinese Medical terminology to aid in my writing and translation/teaching. I am fluent in Chinese but really love to get language books for reading to see how the ideas are taught and also to practice my skills. This book I felt would be very interesting.Indeed, I will admit it is not easy to take on the project of writing such a book. Especially when one tries to take a non-speaker of Chinese to reading advanced professional literature in one volume.I would like to say though, I found the book not that helpful in two ways. 1) The te